A man who was badly injured in the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003 received a hand transplant on Sunday at Massachusetts General Hospital, the first procedure of its kind at the Boston hospital. In a statement Monday, Mass. General said …
LB Neal's Organ Donation Saves Important LifeChristian Post (blog)by Rev. Austin Miles. LB Neal, "Neal" to all of us, died of cancer on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 11:50 A.M. in his Arizona home with his wife Pati at his side. Neal, the…
Doctors at the AIIMS have conducted a stem cell transplant on a multiple sclerosis (MS) patient.
Surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital first to implant world's smallest heart …HealthCanal.comLOUIS – Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital were the first in the country to implant the Impella CP into a heart failure patient o…
Fingers crossed at AIIMS after stem cell transplant for MS, first in countryIndian ExpressDoctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have conducted a stem cell transplant on a multiple sclerosis (MS) patient. They believe this is th…
Priest gets 6000 organ donors in a dayDeccan ChronicleThe Manava Karunya Yatra of Fr Davis Chiramel, who heads the Kidney Foundation of India, got a rousing reception as it entered Ernakulam district on Monday, with 6,000 people pledging to donate thei…
gulfnews.comThree new blood donation sites to be openedgulfnews.comThe expansion is in line with the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who donated blood at…
Health NewstrackPacemaker could help more heart failure patientsHealth NewstrackA new study from Karolinska Institutet demonstrates that a change in the ECG wave called the QRS prolongation is associated with a higher rate of heart-failure mortality. A…
The University of Texas at Austin on Monday unveiled a new laboratory that officials say will fill a critical gap to develop new drugs and biotechnology products.
Moneycontrol.comIndian Patent Office revokes Pfizer's Sutent patentMoneycontrol.comThe Indian Patent Office surprised the pharma sector by revoking the five-year old patent for Pfizer 's kidney cancer drug Sutent on grounds that the drug lacks …