Living Kidney Donation: 'Ultimate Gift' (KUMED - The University of Kansas...
(Source: KUMED - The University of Kansas Hospital) Published: 12/04/2015 Kansas City, Kan. - More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney. With fewer than 20 percent of them receiving...
View ArticleVizag NRKs give new life in death
KOCHI: The family of an Adoor native settled in Visakhapatnam donated her five organs after she was declared brain dead following an accident in that city. T G Santhakumari was riding pillion on a bike...
View ArticleKidney Transplant Arranged Through Craigslist Is Canceled
A potential kidney transplant that made news after the potential donor and recipient connected on Craigslist was cancelled, ABC 6 reports, after a chronic disease was found in the donor’s liver. The...
View ArticleBaby gives life to two in death
KOCHI: Though they are separated and have left the children in an orphanage, the parents of two-year-old girl Saina who was declared brain dead, came together to take the decision to donate her organs-...
View ArticleAir ambulance ferries organs harvested from brain dead to Kochi
Kochi: In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was on Tuesday used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead...
View Article66-year-old brain-dead man gives life to three
The city has got its first cadaver donor of 2015 in a 66-year-old man. The senior citizen, who was declared brain-dead, has given a fresh lease of life to three people. After a lull in the past few...
View ArticleGirish gets a new heart again, doctors term it a miracle
KOCHI: When Palakkad-native Girish Kumar was admitted to Lisie hospital with fever, neither he nor the doctors who gave him a new heart last year would have thought that he would soon be in the...
View ArticleBig-hearted parents donate brain-dead son's organs
BANGALORE: Praveen (name changed), 21, died in a road accident last week. His large-hearted parents, however, ensured he lives on by donating his vital organs. A fifth-semester engineering student of...
View ArticleBrain-dead child's family donates his liver, kidneys, too
Yatharth Aradhya, the brain-dead child whose heart was harvested and transplanted successfully on another toddler in Chennai on Friday, has brought cheers to other families, too. For Yatharth’s family...
View ArticleHeart of brain-dead patient from Thrissur flown to Chennai
Ramavarman.t@timesgroup.com THRISSUR: The heart of a patient who was declared brain-dead after road accident was retrieved at the Daya Hospital in Thrissur on Thursday, marking another achievement in...
View ArticleFive brain-dead donors give new lease of life to 23
CHENNAI: Emotions ran high at Apollo Hospitals on Monday when members of five different families held hands and told the story of grief, loss and generosity. The hospital harvested more than two dozen...
View ArticleOrgans of brain dead youth, child harvested
Chennai: The organs of two brain dead persons - one 25-year-old from Coimbatore and another two-and-a-half-year-old girl from Chennai - were harvested and used for transplantations on Wednesday, thus...
View ArticleFirst cadaver organ transplant at SMS hosipital
JAIPUR: Even as swine flu has wreaked havoc in the state and SMS hosipital is working overtime to contain the killer flu, there's one encouraging news. The first cadaver organ transplant took place in...
View ArticleThree get gift of life from brain-dead senior citizen
MUMBAI: The city witnessed its second organ donation within four days when the sons of a 77-year-old woman from Thakurdwar donated her kidneys, liver and corneas at Saifee Hospital on Thursday night....
View ArticleIndian Air Force flies organs from Pune to Delhi for transplant
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) recently put one of its special aircrafts, an Embraer, for a unique operation — transporting a kidney and a liver from Pune to Delhi. It was used to save the life...
View ArticleOrgan donation gives new lease of life to six persons
Vital organs of a 58-year-old brain dead man were harvested at the Cethar Hospitals here on Friday to give new lease of life to six people. A green corridor was arranged by the city police to airlift...
View Article34-year-old saves four lives after death
Four patients in the city got a new lease of life after receiving the heart valves, liver, a pair of eyes and kidneys of a 34-year-old brain-dead man. Rajanna was admitted in a critical condition on...
View ArticleIn death, Vinaya of Kerala gave new life to 6 persons
KOCHI: Vinaya Kumar (48) of Kadungalloor, a contract labourer with FACT, found a place in history on Tuesday as his heart was transplanted to a patient in Kottayam medical college, a first in the...
View ArticleFirst heart transplant in Rajasthan, 32-year-old farmer recipient
JAIPUR: A farmer has become the first person to receive a heart transplant in the state. The state has created a history of sorts by saving lives of four persons through one cadaver organ donation. Two...
View ArticleGreen corridors aid organ transport, save two lives
INDORE : Two persons got a new lease of life as two separate green corridors were created in the city on Sunday for swift transportation of a human liver and kidney of a brain-dead patient. The first...
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