Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America
Heading to the Mall of America? Feel free to put heart transplants — or at least information about them — on your shopping list.
Tewksbury woman holds fundraiser for heart transplant
A Tewksbury woman is organizing a fundraiser for her brother, needs a heart transplant.
New devices improve lives but deliver no cure for diabetes
Costly technology is making it a lot easier to live with Type 1 diabetes, but scientists are still searching for the elusive cure.
Lab-made organ raises hope for liver transplant – Times of India
The Nation, PakistanLab-made organ raises hope for liver transplantTimes of IndiaJapanese researchers have created a functioning human liver from stemcells, a report said on Friday, raising hopes for the manufacture of artificial organs for those in ne…
New devices improve lives, but no cure for diabetes
Costly technology is making it a lot easier to live with Type 1 diabetes, but scientists are still searching for the elusive cure. For Liz Wilton-McMahan, the 34-year-old director of operations with Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach, receiving an insulin…
Donation station: Castle Rock man rides E-Rock with kidney donation recipient
CASTLE ROCK – Justin Smith had never traveled a course at Elephant Rock before.
Satyamev Jayate: Victim strikes back at doctor
Pankaj Rai writes an open letter to IBNLive to counter the defence of a doctor accused of medical negligence.
Laser zaps bile duct cancer
BACKGROUND: The bile duct is a thin tube, about four to five inches long, that reaches from the liver to the small intestine. The major function of the bile duct is to move a fluid called bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine, wher…
Woman needs a lung as surrogate twins become due
A Melbourne woman is hoping a lung transplant will allow her to live to see her twin babies being born next month as part of a surrogacy pact with her sister-in-law.
Heart box offers better transplant chance
WA doctors have become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to use breakthrough technology dubbed "heart in a box" that allows donor hearts to beat for hours outside the body.