Egypt boy gets new life after combined liver-kidney transplantBusiness StandardThe family was asked to come to India for diagnosis after doctors in Egypt failed to provide treatment for the child. Doctors called the surgery "very challenging"…
Economic TimesIndia rejects AstraZeneca patent appeal on IressaPharmaTimesThe case is the latest stand-off between India and pharma. Last month, Pfizer said it would appeal after the patent on its kidney and liver cancer drug Sutent (sunitinib) was rev…
Zee NewsNargis Dutt Trust looks to provide assistance to children with heart defectsIndia.Com HealthThe Nargis Dutt Memorial Charitable Trust (India) tied up with the UK-based Healing Little Hearts to help financially needy families to deal with Paedia…
STOCKTON – Yolunda Barquet, 41, a Stockton woman who struggled from the age of 3 with a rare lung disorder that led to the critical need for a double-lung transplant earlier this year, died the morning of Nov. 15.
First ever in AP – wives' kidney swapped in transplant procedureIndia.Com HealthDoctors feel that swap kidney transplants could also help in overcoming organ shortage in India. Dr Rajsekhar Chakravarthy said that 228 kidney transplants were conduct…
Child adopted from China to receive heart transplant as family, school ask for the late pope's intercession Born with half a heart and abandoned in a village west of Beijing, nobody believed Liu Fang would survive long after being adopted by a Balt…
A man met his heart transplant donor's wife for the first time after her husband gave him a second chance at life.
Supreme Court sends Pfizer-Cipla case back to Patent OfficeTimes of IndiaPfizer was granted a patent for kidney cancer drug Sutent in India in 2007. Significantly, Cipla filed a post-grant application and won the case in September this year, with the P…
Daily MailWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lung trouble: Ecuador envoyTimes of IndiaQUITO: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up at Ecuador's London embassy for five months, has a lung condition that could get worse, the South…
12-year-old awaits kidney donorDeccan HeraldA 12-year-old boy is struggling for life at All India Institute of Medical Sciences with both the kidneys damaged. Since last Monday, his life has become depended on regular dialysis. In absence of a donated …