NDTVCall to promote organ donationThe Hans IndiaSpeaking at a function held on the occasion of National Organ Donation Day in SVIMS on Saturday, Ravikumar said there is every need to recognise the altruism of deceased donor families and increase organ …
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The Second Life: An Organ Recipient’s Account
NDTV Mr. Aggarwal has had no direct or indirect communication with the donor family and does not know if there is any link between the newspaper report and his donor. All he knows is that the donation was from a deceased donor and the families’ information … |
Irish IndependentLiving donor kidney transplants to jump by 50pc this yearIrish IndependentKidney transplants are performed in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and the unit expects to have a 50pc rise in operations with organs from living donors this year. …
The HinduJIPMER to commence liver transplant from December 15 – The HinduThe HinduNOBLE DEED ACKNOLWEDGED: S.C. Parija, JIPMER Director, having a word with the family members of the patients, who donated organs, after honouring …and more &r…
The HinduJIPMER to commence liver transplant from December 15The HinduThe institute had so far performed 101 kidney transplants. Of these, 50 were living donor kidney transplants. There is a waitlist of seven patients to receive kidneys from live donor…
Organ Transplant Immunosuppressant Drugs Market Segmentation and Strategies of Key Players For 2023Medgadget (blog)This segment is expected to maintain its dominance during the forecast period as availability of kidneys from live and deceased donors is…
Prince George Citizen |
Organ donations up in the north
Prince George Citizen Northern Health estimates it serves a population of around 300,000, which puts this year’s donor numbers up to 20 per million. That’s on par with the B.C. average for deceased donors and above Canada’s 16.6 donors per million, according to a BC … |
Leave a great legacyTidewater NewsAfrican-Americans, according to the NCBI, comprise 12.9 percent of the population and 34 percent of the kidney transplant waiting list, but account for only 13.8 percent of deceased donors. Complicating the matter, acc…
Santa Rosa Press Democrat |
Celebrations: Windsor woman saves stranger’s life through kidney donation Â
Santa Rosa Press Democrat Although kidney transplants can come from living and deceased donors, a living donor’s kidney is preferred for two reasons. It begins working in the recipient’s body almost immediately (a cadaveric kidney can take days and even weeks to get going), and … |
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Altruistic anonymous uterus donation – altruism at the highest level?
BioNews In February 2016, the Cleveland Clinic in the US performed a uterus transplant using a deceased donor; this was removed shortly after transplantation (4). A UK team, Womb Transplant UK, also has ethical approval to perform up to ten transplants from … |