15-year-old gets a second chance to life, thanks to timely heart transplant
--> dna Correspondent | Mon, 12 Sep 2016-07:20am , Mumbai , dna The heart belonged to a 19 year old boxer. Yet another successful heart transplantation procedure was conducted on a 15-year-old boy...
View ArticleStudent's family donates his heart, other vital organs
PUNE: The heart and other vital organs of a brain-dead student were donated by his family, giving a new lease of life to four patients in Mumbai, Pune and Nashik on Wednesday. The heart was...
View Article61-year-old brain dead gifts life to three
KOZHIKODE: Three patients with liver and kidney failure got the biggest gift of their lifetime after the relatives of 61-year-old Leela, who was declared brain-dead agreed to donate the organs of the...
View ArticleHospital gets 3 cadaver donors in three days
The families of three brain dead patients admitted to Vijaya Group of Hospitals on three consecutive days last week consented to donate their organs, giving a new lease of life to 16 people. At a press...
View ArticleBrain-dead boy gives life to three
BENGALURU: On December 12, Kiran Kumar P and seven of his friends ventured out on a joyride in a sedan. But the speed thrill ended in tragedy with the car ramming a roadside tree and leaving Kiran...
View ArticleShameful organ-donation rates push Hong Kong to excel in transplant surgery
One of Hong Kong's most eminent transplant surgeons is busily sketching on a yellow notepad in the staff canteen on the second floor of Queen Mary Hospital (QMH). "Live donor liver transplant is a lot...
View ArticleMore Ohioans donating organs
For thousands of Americans who are waiting on a transplant, the donation of an organ can literally be the gift of a lifetime. In 2014, 325 Ohioans shared this gift through organ donation at the time of...
View ArticleLiver travels 210km in three-and-a-half hours
PUNE: Covering a distance of 210km, the liver of a 67-year-old brain-dead man from Nashik was transported to Pune in just three-and-a-half hours on Monday to save the life of a 50-year-old man. The...
View ArticleIn death, he gifts new life to four
CHANDIGARH: The family of a 43-year-old resident of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, who was declared brain-dead at PGI, Chandigarh, on August 20, on Wednesday donated his organs to give a second lease of...
View ArticleAster Medcity: Top of the range
Aster Medcity, located in Cheranalloor, a suburban town near Kochi, is set on 40 acres of land with an attractive waterfront. It was officially launched on May 6, 2014 and is the fulfilment of a dream...
View Article10-month-old gets fresh lease of life
Kochi: Thanmay was 10 months when his parents Manjunath and Deepika noticed a swelling in his abdomen last year. When they took him to the doctor, he was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma - a rare form of...
View ArticleLife is short but organs can live on
It was a scene straight out of the film Traffic but had a part, which unfolded in the skies high above. An ambulance rushing with a harvested heart towards an air ambulance kept ready for immediate...
View ArticleKidneys, liver donation gives life to 3, corneas go to bank
Pune: The Ruby Hall clinic completed a multiple cadaver organ harvest late on Tuesday night and successfully transplanted two kidneys and the liver, giving a new lease of life to three persons on...
View ArticleBrain-dead welder gives lease of life to 7 people in Kerala
Kochi: Seven people got a new lease of life after the family a 25-year-old man, declared brain-dead after an accident, donated his vital organs. Vishnu G Krishnan, a welder and sole breadwinner of his...
View ArticleDying to donate, waiting to live
Nagpur: When Laxmi Gupta’s 24-year-old son, Sachin, was declared brain dead in August, she generously offered to donate all his organs. “My husband is a kidney patient and we know the pain of not...
View Article42-yr-old brian dead man gifts life to five
KOZHIKODE: Family members of 42-year- old Sajeesh who was declared brain dead at the KOZHIKODE Medical College hospital here on Tuesday following an accident gifted fresh lease...
View ArticleGreen corridor helps three get a new life
Noida: The kidneys and liver of a 74-year-old man gave a fresh lease of life for three others when a green corriodor was created to transplant the organs on Monday. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Kavi...
View ArticleChennai shows heart! Halts traffic to save life
TRANS ASIA NEWS CHENNAI: In what seems like a case of the entire universe conspiring to make a 21 year old live on with a transplanted heart, all of Chennai came together in an orchestrated harmony to...
View ArticleKerala: A stretch of paradise
Fancy a good rain? A good time to visit Kerala is during the monsoons when the weather showcases nature in all its glory. My colleague and I took an IndiGo flight from Dubai and arrived in Kozhikode's...
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...
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