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• Disparities In Kidney Transplants For African-Americans

  
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  While the percentage of kidney transplants involving live donors has remained stable for other minority populations, African Americans have seen a decline in live donors even as more of them receive kidney transplants, according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Those findings were presented at the annual ...
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• Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions: Are They Really Necessary?

  
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  Many patients with hematologic malignancies develop dangerously low platelet counts due to their disease, their treatment, or both. To mitigate the risk of bleeding, such patients have historically received prophylactic platelet transfusions. Recently, however, the value of this practice has been called into question. ...
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• Spencer Kobren – Coping with Hair Loss In The UK

  
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  Spencer Kobren and Spencer (Spex) Stevenson speak with a 54 year old caller about his hair loss concerns and his early success with Propecia, and BTT forum user Breaking Bald calls in from Scotland to let the guys know how much better he’s doing emotionally since he’s found TBT. For daily updates on the world ...
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• AminoActiv® Lessens the Economic Burden of Diabetes, While Offering Equal or Better Pain Relief and Fewer Side Effects Than NSAIDs

  
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  MADISON, Tenn., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Since 2007, the total cost of diabetes treatment in the United States has risen from $174 billion to $245 billion. Nearly 26 million adults and children currently live with the disease. Per capita medical expenditures now total $7,900. Chronic pain and neuropathy ...
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• A Newbie’s Philosophical Glass Blowing Notes

  
  Living A Simple Life — Authority: 108
  My latest hobby has proved very fulfilling so far. I find myself drawing parallels between glass blowing and other things throughout the day. As I roll a piece of gum around in my mouth and mold it into a ball I am reminded of spinning a glass marble in a graphite mold. Making something tangible, [...]
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• eBook Review – Coming Home: Letters from a Tiny House

  
  Living A Simple Life — Authority: 108
  I read Coming Home: Letters from a Tiny House by Hari Berzins in two sittings. The first was about a month ago, and the second was tonight. It was an enjoyable read, but I think the book would have been better suited for bite-sized sessions. I would have liked reading a little each day with [...]
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• Where Are We 10 Years After SARS?

  
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  A decade ago the SARS pandemic hit China and infected over 8,000 people around the world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)  was a global outbreak and public health scientists were racing to understand and contain this mystery illness.  Gregory Poland, M.D. , director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research ...
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• More Hispanic Organ Donations Needed

  
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  April is National Donate Life Month , held to encourage organ and tissue donation and to celebrate donors who give a new life to others. In the U.S., more than 118,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, and 19 percent are Hispanic. Experts say there is a need for organ donation in the Hispanic community ...
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• Re-animated Kidneys, 3-D Printing and (Icky?) Organ Markets

  
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  As horrific as the recent events in Boston were, it’s easy to get lost in the tar pits of negativity and despair over the state of modern society. However, such despondence ignores the reality that people around the world are now less likely to die a violent death than at literally any other time [...] The post ...
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• Manitoba Researchers Partner to Improve Organ Transplants

  
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  A team of seven Manitoba researchers from the University of Manitoba, CancerCare Manitoba, Transplant Manitoba, Manitoba Institute of Child Health, and St. Boniface General Hospital are part of a new national research program launched today with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The ...
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