Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Growing evidence suggests that age alone shouldn't prevent older adults from being organ donors or having a kidney transplant themselves according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The findings could help alleviate a serious shortage of organs for transplantation....... A study of 144 kidney transplants found that at least a year after surgery...Trans fatty acids: What are they and why shouldn't you eat them?
Just what is the skinny on those trans fatty acids that are so bad for you? Donuts, stick margarines, French fries, cookies and other tasty snacks are loaded with them. And this summer the Food and Drug Administration decreed that as of Jan. 1, 2006, manufacturers must break the trans fats category out of the total fat listing on labels....... is the newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society...