Girl brain dead, organs retrieved five days later
Thousands of patients needing organ transplant die every day in India due to lack of donors. But when it comes to donating the organs, doctors say, legal hassles are many.
No more at 18, she lives in five others – Organ donor milestone
New Delhi, Oct. 4: On their daughter’s 18th birthday, Shobna Mathur and her husband Ajay waited patiently for doctors to harvest the teenager’s organs, and prepared to bid goodbye to her forever.
No more at 18, she lives in five others
In the southern states, a non-government Multi-Organ Harvesting Aid Network has conducted a campaign and succeeded in raising the deceased organ donation rate in Tamil Nadu to 1.3 per million population.
Girl dies in accident, parents donate five of her organs – Indian Express
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Will reassess future plans in November: Sachin Tendulkar – Times of India
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India expects UK to act on Khalistanis – Hindustan Times
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Japan is where Digvijay's heart is – Times of India
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India nixes Pfizer's patent on cancer-fighter Sutent – FiercePharma
LivemintIndia nixes Pfizer's patent on cancer-fighter SutentFiercePharmaIndia has blown another raspberry at Big Pharma. In its third strike against foreign drugmakers, the Indian patent office yanked Pfizer's ($PFE) patent on the kidney cancer…
First SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Patient in Slovenia Receives Heart Transplant
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