8-year agony ends, man gets heart, liver together
CHENNAI: After struggling for eight years with breathlessness and bouts of jaundice, 30-year-old Ponnar now has a new heart and a new liver. In a complex surgery, doctors at a city hospital...
View ArticleChennai doctors perform combined heart and liver transplant
CHENNAI: After struggling for eight years with breathlessness and bouts of jaundice, 30-year-old Ponnar now has a new heart and a new liver. In a complex operation, doctors at a hospital in Chennai...
View ArticleDeclared brain dead, Bengaluru kidney-seeker turns donor
BENGALURU: A 50-year-old man waiting for a kidney transplant turned into an organ donor for a chronic liver patient here after he was declared brain dead. Soon after he was declared brain dead, his...
View ArticleThird heart transplantation in Kozhikode in a month
On Saturday, the city saw the third heart transplantation in just about a month. The heart of 52-year-old Joseph Cherian, a businessman from Idukki district, was harvested among other organs at Aster...
View Article52-year-old man gifts life to three
Laissamma smiled through her grief. For, her beloved life- partner was leaving this world after another heroic act: saving the lives of four others. Joseph, a 52-year-old businessman from Nedumkadam,...
View ArticleRed-tape threatens to derail heart transplantation programme
A series of bureaucratic hurdles are threatening to derail attempts by doctors at Gandhi Hosptial to take up heart transplantation, which will be for the first time by a government hospital in...
View ArticleCardiac Risk in the Young to Launch #CRYXmasJumper Appeal (Leinster Rugby)
(Source: Leinster Rugby) Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), one of Leinster Rugby's charity partners for this season, will today launch their annual Christmas jumper appeal in the RDS and are asking all...
View ArticleScouting for the right place
The National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (Natpac) will carry out an inspection on Monday to identify sites to relocate the toll gate for the NH 66 bypass corridor from Kazhakuttam to...
View ArticleFirefighter receives Brooklyn man’s face in remarkable transplant
A Mississippi firefighter who was disfigured while trying to save people from a house fire 14 years ago will get a second chance at a “normal” life, thanks to a new face from a tragic Brooklyn cyclist...
View Article'I could not believe people were helping me, finally'
He once wore his blue-and-white striped Hugo Boss shirt with pride but it became a source of despair for Bongani Ngcobo, who has tuberculosis. Those with the disease who are declared too ill to work by...
View ArticleSetting the trend of body donation
Each night before he goes to sleep, Vinod Kumar, a businessman from Kochi, recounts the last, tragic moments of Sheela, his wife. Much before his wife died in November last year, the couple had already...
View ArticleHow A Tinder Date Led To A Lifesaving Kidney Donation
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos While scrolling through Tinder over the summer, this guy swiped right -- very, very right. Rich O’Dea, a man from Tampa,...
View ArticleUMPI Bio-Med Club collaborates with Partners for World Health (University of...
(Source: University of Maine at Presque Isle) The University of Maine at Presque Isle's Bio-Med Club, through its partnership with the Maine-based, non-profit organization Partners for World Health...
View ArticleAdmn set to give push to organ donation
Indore: Drawing inspiration from Prime Minister's recent 'Mann ki baat' message on encouraging organ donation in the country, Indore Organ Donation Society will soon write to organ retrieving doctors...
View Article10 from State bag UGC award
Ten Malayalis are among those who have been selected for the research awards instituted by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Of the six research awards in English, three have been won...
View ArticleTVMCH received 9,800 units of blood: Collector
Over 200 voluntary donors donated blood at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital blood bank in Palayamkottai on Saturday in view of the ‘World Blood...
View ArticleUnderestimating Women's Renal Function Puts Them at Lower Priority on the...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The allocation of scarce liver organs for transplantation is an important and complex issue. The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is a...
View ArticleRally against child abuse
: Celebrities, professionals, corporates and people from all walks of life participated in the rally held here on...
View ArticleLiver transplant facility from next year: City doc
Indore: People requiring liver transplant will no longer have to go out of state as the facility would be available in Indore from next year. At least three private hospitals have expressed their...
View ArticleOutcomes After Transplantation are the Same for Patients Who are Obese and...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University presented a study at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver...
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