PakistanToday.com.pkOn World Kidney Day hospitals stress on organ donationThe HinduHospitals in the city organised programmes on Thursday to dispel myths about organ donation and transplantation. For the past seven years the International Society of Ne…
Patch's Poll: Are You An Organ Donor?Patch.comThe proposal includes creating an Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Fund, which would be supported by voluntary contributions, the press release says. Are you an organ donor? Why or why not? Take our pol…
Geelong AdvertiserCancer sufferer turns to Facebook to find a cureThe Daily TelegraphPamela Bousejean has Hodgkin's Lymphoma and needs a stem cell transplant. Picture: Alison Wynd Source: News Limited A WOMAN battling cancer has turned to Facebook …
Hamptons.comSouthampton Hospital's Regional Dialysis Center Receives IPRO Five-Diamond AwardHamptons.comThe Five-Diamond Award is presented by IPRO's End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network of New York, which is dedicated to assisting dialysis a…
Women Fare Better With Heart FailureU.S. News & World ReportTHURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) — Women with heart failure are less likely to die than men with the condition, according to new research from Europe. An analysis of data from 31 studies in…
The HinduDonate my organs after death: Health MinisterHimalayan Times“Nepal is an accident-prone country and every year around Bir Hospital handles about 100 brain death cases,” said Shrestha. He added if the brain death organ donation was a succes…
Transplants beat blood group matchTimes of IndiaSo he offered them a complicated transplant surgery, in which donations are made across blood groups. The patient (of blood group O) and the donor (B) were discharged a week later after a successful trans…
The HinduNIH encourages reducing disparities in kidney transplantationHealthCanal.comIn recognition of World Kidney Day on March 8, the National Institutes of Health is promoting efforts to reduce disparities in organ transplantation. This is particula…
Men with heart failure more likely to die than womenmsnbc.comBy MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Women with heart failure, a condition in which the heart fails to pump enough blood to meet the body's demands, may live longer than their male counterparts, a …
Ortho SuperSiteSurgeons discuss the advantages, risks of bilateral total knee arthroplastyOrtho SuperSiteSculco also recommends using perioperative hydrocortisone to decrease lung complications. He said three doses can be given at 8-hour intervals. In …