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AFP - Japan’s lower house on Thursday voted to scrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants here for the first time.

AFP - Japan’s lower house voted to scrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants here for the first time.

AFP - Japan’s lower house voted to scrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants here for the first time.

Reuters - U.S. regulators have approved Novartis AG’s Ilaris to treat children and adults with a rare but potentially fatal auto-inflammatory disease, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday.

AFP - Japan’s parliament was set to vote on plans to reform organ donation laws, potentially paving the way for children to receive life-saving transplants here for the first time.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — If you or a loved one has diabetes, you know
that insulin is a lifeline to better health. But not all types of insulin
are the same.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Heat exhaustion and heatstroke occur when
the body becomes overheated and can’t cool itself back down.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — Bad neighborhoods and lack
of opportunity are usually blamed for boys joining violent street gangs.
But a new study finds that the urge to join gangs might lie, at least in
part, in their genes.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — The new anti-clotting pill
rivaroxaban (Xarelto) lowers the risk of stroke, heart attack and death in
patients who have had a heart attack or suffer from unstable angina, a new
trial shows.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — Hibernation induced by
opioid drugs reduced brain damage and behavioral dysfunction in a study of
rats that experienced an experimental stroke, researchers report.