Harvested organs from Madurai reach Chennai in double quick time
While cadaver transplantation has become fairly common in the State, which has a better donation rate in the country, what must be remembered is that every time a donation happens, it is only because...
View ArticlePakistani boy gets a heart from Hyderabad
A 10-year-old boy of Pakistani origin living in Dubai was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian,...
View ArticlePakistani boy gets heart from Hyderabad
A 10-year-old boy of Pakistani origin living in Dubai was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian,...
View ArticleThe journey of a young heart from Hyderabad to Pakistan
A 14-year-old boy from Pakistan was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian, chairman and CEO of the...
View ArticleKochi traffic halts to let beating heart pass
Kochi, Aug 11 (IANS) A siren-blaring ambulance carrying the harvested heart and lungs of a brain-dead young man breezed through otherwise choked roads and reached the airport in no time, all thanks to...
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 inks MoU with Thomas Jefferson University
Kochi, Nov 19 (IANS) Kochi-based Aster Medcity on Saturday inked an MoU with the US based Thomas Jefferson University which will allow Indian doctors access to the best of global healthcare knowledge...
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 Article10-year-old Kazakh girl receives Kerala boy’s heart, lungs
CHENNAI: A 10-year-old girl from Kazakhstan who had been waiting for several months at a city hospital in the hope that she would receive a heart-lung transplant before it was too late on Tuesday...
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 Article18-year-old brain dead girl gifts life to five
KOZHIKODE: An 18-year-old girl, Keerthana, who was declared brain dead following an intracranial hemorrhage, gifts new lease of life to five. Her organs- eyes, liver and kidneys were donated to various...
View ArticleGifts of life: Two families share joy and pain after rare double-lung and...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Fourteen-year-old Angelynn Luckado's cystic fibrosis ravaged her organs, leading to an extensive hospital stay, an extremely rare and complicated...
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