From Print EditionThe News InternationalA 14-year-old boy, requiring urgent liver transplant to save his life, is looking for some philanthropist to raise at least five million rupees needed for the surgery to enable him to have a fighting chance again…
The city has witnessed the highest number of kidney and liver donations in the last five years, according to figures from the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC).
Mumbai, Oct. 27 — A timely cadaver liver transplant early this month saved the life of a 34-year-old Jain monk who was suffering from acute liver failure because of a Hepatitis B infection. Dharmaguna Jain, 34, had lost hope until the relatives of a 5…
Is it okay for diabetics to consume alcohol?Times of IndiaAlcohol interferes with liver's release of glucose because once liver detects alcohol, it gives preference to first clearing the alcohol, putting glucose production and release on hold. Henc…
Economic TimesVirtual Liver may be cure for drug failures in clinical trialsEconomic TimesBANGALORE: Kalyanasundaram Subramanian had lost count of the number of times pharma firms had asked him: "Do you have a good model for predicting drug toxici…
Renal transplant performed at MCH
Dengue not so deadly this year?Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Genetic sequencing of dengue virus samples at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Vasant Kunj, has shown the presence of multiple strains of the vector-borne infection in the capital — …
How overeating leads to diabetes and obesityTimes of IndiaIncreased fatty acids induce inflammation and that, in turn, can further worsen insulin resistance, which is the core defect in type 2 diabetes. Fatty acids also increase glucose production in t…
Statins can help cut cancer riskTimes of IndiaCholesterol-lowering statins, which are taken every day by millions of people to reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, has now been shown to dramatically cut the chance of developing deadly liver cancer,…
The Times of IsraelEx-Mossad chief serious but stable after liver transplant in BelarusThe Times of IsraelAmerican and German doctors were asked to perform the operation, but “no one wanted to carry out a liver transplant operation on a former head o…