Category: Health & Medicine

Study: Better Treatment Likely The Cause for Decline in Heart Attack Deaths

Study: Better Treatment Likely The Cause for Decline in Heart Attack Deaths

| May 6, 2007 | 0 Comments

In a six year study lead by Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at the University of Edinburgh, researchers found that deaths from heart attacks have fallen sharply. The trends parallel the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries.

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Not Brain Dead But Still An Organ Donor

Not Brain Dead But Still An Organ Donor

| August 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

Before 1968, lack of heartbeat and breath were considered the defining signs of death. In 1968, a new kind of death criteria was introduced, “brain death.” As medicine advanced, so did ways of keeping people alive on respirators and feeding tubes, even if the brain no longer functioned. Throughout the 1970s, the science and legal [...]

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Biomedical Supply House Owners Charged with Selling Body Parts For Transplants

Biomedical Supply House Owners Charged with Selling Body Parts For Transplants

| July 27, 2006 | 0 Comments

Earlier this year, a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts to the tune of millions of dollars. They’d obtain bodies from funeral parlors in New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia and New Jersey and then forge death certificates and organ donor consent forms to sell the organs. Prosecutors said that [...]

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Death and Dying: The Widower Effect

Death and Dying: The Widower Effect

| April 13, 2006 | 0 Comments

A new study by Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania reports that people who have lost a spouse within the last 30 days are significantly more likely to die. The study followed more than 518,000 couples older than 65.

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