Teresa Bartlinski prepped for transplant, but heart wasn't ideal match Five-year-old Teresa Bartlinski was lying unconscious shortly after 3 a.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when the doctor told her parents they had called…
Fitness freak? Over-exercising can harm heartTimes of IndiaLONDON: Too much exercise may damage your heart, doctors have warned, suggesting that rather than adding years to their lives, fitness freaks could be working themselves into an early grave. Ex…
Blood donation drive by ex-students draws 109New Straits TimesCOMMITTEE members of the Dato Hamzah School Ex-students Association here recently organised its second blood donation drive for the year. KLANG: Held at the Aeon Bukit Tinggi Shopping Centre…
Transplant surgery delayed after transport bungleDaily AdvertiserTransplant surgery delayed after transport bungle. By Kree Nash. Dec. 1, 2012, midnight. A CORNEA transplant recipient had their operation delayed after the donated tissue took an unexpec…
abc13.comABC13 wraps up Month to Matchabc13.com"She's getting her cells from a male, so we gave her 'It's a boy' balloons," joked Megan Dickson, the daughter of a cancer patient receiving a stem cell transplant. With balloons,…
Hepatitis screening camp heldE-Pao.netImphal, November 30 2012: With active support of BD India Pvt Ltd, BMS India Ltd and Zydus Cadila Heptiza Vision, a 10-day free screening camp for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C was opened today at the Paediatric Cent…
CPF Joins Doctors to Identify Needs, Gaps and Challenges in Pulmonary Fibrosis ResearchBETHESDA, Md., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) participated in a landmark meeting at the National Institutes of H…
A Wisconsin woman is recovering from a successful kidney transplant thanks to a billboard advertisement. The woman's friends bought the ad a year ago in hopes of finding an organ donor, and it worked. Emily Matesic reports.
Mumbai, Dec. 1 — His extended family laughed at A Kandaswamy, a flour-mill owner in Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu, when he agreed to donate a part of his liver to replace his 19-month-old son Sanjay's diseased one in 1998. A living-donor transplant – …
It was a big achievement for Dr AS Soin, chief liver transplant specialist at Medanta-The Medicity in Gurgaon, when he along with his team performed the 100th child liver transplant this week.