Drug-eluting stents may lower reocclusion rates of CTOsHealioResearchers of a recent study have found that everolimus-eluting stents and conventional anterograde or retrograde approaches to chronic total occlusion are associated with very low rates of …
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Nurse donates dead husband’s organs
Indian Express As a result of the donation, a 17-year-old girl suffering from a serious liver condition and two others got a new lease of life. The teenager underwent transplant at Jupiter Hospital in Thane last week. “Her condition was critical. She was waiting for … |
Servio and Vanessa Mendez are recovering at home, about two months after Vanessa donated a kidney to her ailing husband, who suffered from polycystic kidney disease.
The AgeWhiff of desperation as tobacco lobby loses its puff over packagingThe AgeSixty-four nations have now made the unforgettable pictures law and six (New Zealand, Britain, France, Norway, Turkey and India) are already showing strong interest in fol…
A Joplin heart transplant recipient had been dealing with a different kind of heartache since New Year’s Day, when her 8-month-old boxer, Laila, disappeared from the family’s home on Porter Avenue.
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Fewer Germans donating organs for transplants after claims doctors rigged …
Washington Post BERLIN — Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany following a scandal over alleged corruption at several transplant clinics. The German Foundation for Organ Transplantation says the number of organs donated fell almost 13 percent to 3,917 last … |
In a scientific feat that borrows from fiction, once-blind mice can see (and run — keep reading to see how) after receiving a retinal injection of light-sensitive cells — an approach that could one day help humans with disabling eye diseases. “If we transplant cells…
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Indian drug majors to supply life-saving medicines to Iran
Business Standard The request from Iran is mainly for bulk drugs, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and generic formulations to treat lung and breast cancers, brain tumours, heart ailments and other key diseases. “The Indian pharmaceutical industry is known for … |
Two women donate organs of their brain-dead husbandsTimes of IndiaThe second organ donation took place at Fortis Hospital, Mulund, where the mother of a five-year-old boy donated the kidneys, liver, corneas and skin of her 36-year-old husband who was b…
Mumbai, Jan. 8 — There were two cadaver donations in the city within a span of 24 hours, giving six people a new lease of life.On Saturday, doctors at PD Hinduja Hospital’s intensive care unit identified a 58-year-old brain dead patient. The man’s wife, Rita Patel, who is a nurse at the hospital’s dialysis ward, immediately agreed to donate her husband’s organs and corneas.”She knew the plight …