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Green light for new Red Cross app
It's well known that blood donors perform a vital, life-saving community service, but for some, regular blood donation is an important part of staying healthy.
Apr 24, 2013
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Poll shows half of Americans would consider donating a kidney to a stranger
Good news for anyone needing a transplant; a new Mayo Clinic survey shows that the public's support for both living and deceased organ donation is increasing. Eighty-four percent of respondents said they would be very or ...
Apr 18, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Two-step ovarian cancer immunotherapy made from patients' own tumor shows promise
As many as three quarters of advanced ovarian cancer patients appeared to respond to a new two-step immunotherapy approach—including one patient who achieved complete remission—according research from the Perelman School ...
Apr 6, 2013
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Organ donation shortfall at large general hospitals in Ontario
Organ donation in Ontario is significantly less common at large general hospitals than at hospitals with clinical programs for transplant recipients, which points to missed opportunities to optimize organ donation, according ...
Apr 2, 2013
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Research show little support for controls on overseas fertility treatment
Problems in accessing donor sperm and eggs at home appear to be behind a reported increase in the number of UK citizens who seek fertility treatment abroad, despite the fact that this is widely seen as risky. Now, a team ...
Mar 20, 2013
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Fla. company supplied organs in rabies case
(AP)—An official at an organ donation service in Florida says it was the supplier of transplanted organs from a man who later was found to have died of rabies.
Mar 18, 2013
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'Prevent death' message more effective than 'save life' in blood donation campaigns
Subtle changes in messaging can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of charitable messages such as calls for blood donations, according to research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Eileen Chou ...
Mar 6, 2013
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Medical research
uBiome project seeking to sequence the human microbiome
(Medical Xpress)—Three health researchers have set up a project called uBiome, on the crowd sourcing site indiegogo, with the aim of sequencing the human microbiome—microbes that live on and in the human body. The purpose ...
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Increase in proportion of livers not used for transplantation
(HealthDay)—The proportion of livers not used for transplantation is increasing, with the primary causes being donation after cardiac death (DCD), older donor age, greater body mass index (BMI), and increasing diabetes ...
Jan 22, 2013
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HTN risk up for african-american live kidney donors
(HealthDay)—African-American live kidney donors have a significantly increased risk of hypertension compared with non-donors, according to a study published online Oct. 24 in the American Journal of Transplantation.
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