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• Gum Disease and Heart Disease – A Strong Connection

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Benjamin Franklin once quoted she laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. We can now probably add and a healthy heart. Recent research studies have shown a striking association between poor dental hygiene and coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease may be responsible for 20% of deaths ...
  3 hours ago

• Increased Risk For Transplant Patients Who Develop Head & Neck Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  Transplant patients who develop head and neck cancer are more likely to be non-smokers and non-drinkers, and less likely than their non-transplant counterparts to survive past one year of diagnosis, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. As part of a 20-year review, Henry Ford researchers found ...
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• In Development - System To Deliver Organ Transplant Drug Without Harmful Side Effects

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmful side effects, is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The drug, cyclosporine (CsA), is widely used in transplant operations and helps prevent the patients body rejecting the ...
  3 hours ago

• Stopping Immunosuppressive Prednisone Soon After Transplantation Found To Be Safe

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help prevent serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Also, doing so does not appear to jeopardize the long-term survival ...
  2 days ago

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation As A Bridge To Lung Transplantation

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support in awake, non-intubated patients may be an effective strategy for bridging patients to lung transplantation, according to a new study from Germany. "As waiting times for donor organs continue to increase, so does the need for bridging strategies for patients with ...
  6 days ago

• Having A Good Time Despite That You’re By Yourself

  
  Health till 100 — Authority: 132
  There comes a point in your life whenever you start to realize that all your buddies start to have boyfriends or girlfriends, and it is only you that is left with nobody. Truly, you could really feel that jealousy coming to your head, and due to thinking an excessive amount of of it; which you start to lose your hair ...
  1 week ago

• Packer Transplants #99 Podcast With Rob Demovsky

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 499
  Download audio file (Transplants99.mp3) audio player - press play button Click here for a POP-OUT Audio Player While youre listening check out the live blogcast replay here. Download Versions: Download Podcast 99 Free Subscription Option Tweet
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• Lives Worth Saving

  
  Blogs — Authority: 146
  Linda Jones (a former head of an organ procurement organization) and I (professor, liver post-transplant patient) started "Live Worth Saving" at the Ohio State University Medcial Center to address the national issue of organ transplantation and intellectual disabilities. Here are my thoughts on this topic. . ...
  1 week ago

• Lives Worth Saving

  
  Blogs — Authority: 146
  Linda Jones (a former head of an organ procurement organization) and I (professor, liver post-transplant patient) started "Live Worth Saving" at the Ohio State University Medcial Center to address the national issue of organ transplantation and intellectual disabilities. Here are my thoughts on this topic. . ...
  1 week ago

• Packer Transplants 99 with Rob Demovsky

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 499
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• Final Packer Transplants Of 2011 Season Tonight!

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 499
  Join me and my co-host Corey Behnke tonight for the final installment of  Packer Transplants  LIVE for the 2011 Packers season at 9pm EST/8pm CST. Corey and I are thrilled to be welcoming Rob Demovsky, Packers beat writer from the Green Bay Press Gazette as our very special guest this evening. We will talk about ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Lack of organ donors affecting liver transplants’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The crunch in organ donations is affecting the number of transplants in India, a doctor said Wednesday, adding that nearly 25,000 patients need liver transplants annually but only 800 are able to get these.“Lack of donors who pledge to donate their organs after their death is affecting the ...
  1 week ago

• NJ parents: Disabled girl was denied transplant

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 135
  NJ parents: Disabled girl was denied transplant Associated Press read more
  1 week ago

• Pediatric Liver Transplant Graft Recipients Can Stay Off Immunosuppressant Medications

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  A study in the January 18 issue of JAMA reveals that the majority of children who received liver transplant grafts from a parent were able to stay off immunosuppression therapy for at least 1 year with normal graft function after gradual withdrawal from the therapy. Individuals who receive a solid organ ...
  1 week ago

• Man Receives Synthetic Windpipe

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 126
  Built from his own cells . Nice. Filed under: Cool Stuff Tagged: Medicine , Organ Transplants , Science , Synthetic Organs , Technology , Trachea , Windpipes
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• Nurse Donates Own Kidney To Patient

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  Nurse Allison Batson donated one of her own kidneys to 23-year old patient, Clay Taber; somebody she barely knew, after working on the transplant department of Emory University Hospital for over two years. Allison was not even Clays primary nurse, but says she felt an instant connection with him. Taber, from Columbus, ...
  1 week ago

• Marathon liver transplant saves three toddlers (with Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 17, (IANS) Three children got a new lease of life following a 20-hour, complex liver transplant procedure, requiring a team of 40 doctors simultaneously performing in half-a-dozen operation theaters.Tejasree, Ansa and Anish suffered from congenital liver conditions leading to life-threatening ...
  1 week ago

• Eugenics In Action: 3 Year Old Girl Denied Kidney Transplant Because She Is “Mentally Retarded”

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 420
  You are about to read about a 3 year old girl named Amelia that was denied a kidney transplant because she is considered to be "mentally retarded". The doctor that made this decision felt as though Amelia would not have a good enough "quality of life" to justify the procedure. Unfortunately, this is yet another ...
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• Behold! Yao Ming, Man Of The People

  
  With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — Authority: 556
  Worst. Police lineup. Ever. If you thought that something as silly as constant foot and ankle injuries leading to early retirement were going to stop former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming from dominating the world, you were dead wrong. Yao, after having spent some time adorably tickling a baby panda, has taken his ...
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• Vital Transplant Organs Scarce for Seniors

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, has revealed that thousands of U.S. senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and would be able to receive them if physicians would overcome past outdated medical ...
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