Students to help admin improve health systemTimes of IndiaINDORE: In a bid to improve the health system in city especially at state-run Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MYH) and encourage organ donation, the administration has sought help of Devi Ahilya …
UK doctor asks WB govt to start corpse donation programmeZee NewsThe Transplantation of Human Organ Act was passed by the central government in 1994 but many states in India including West Bengal are yet to enact it. The Birmingham-based surgeon who ha…
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Entertainment listings, Nov. 28 to Dec. 4, 2013
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette Hour of music and activities in downtown businesses begins at 5 p.m.: Champaign Urbana Theatre Company’s Dickensian Carolers stroll through downtown, holiday open house with caroling, organ performance, behind-the-scenes tours, theater … Freewill … |
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UK doctor asks WB govt to start corpse donation programme
Business Standard Tata Medical Center’s deputy director Dr V R Ramanan said India needs 200,000 kidney and 100,000 liver transplants every year but only 3 per cent of organs are available. “There is poor public awareness on the issue and organ retrieval infrastructure … |
Despite risk, wife donates liver to manDeccan ChronicleHis wife came up for donation, but the anatomy of the donor was complicated, and was left with no other donor. With a multi-disciplinary team approach we took up the challenge and performed the tra…
Just 1 Jeevandan at OsmaniaThe Asian AgeHyderabad: Of the 35 people who have donated organs to the Jeevandan scheme of the government, only one donation was utilised by the Osmania General Hospital, while other government hospitals have been struggling…
Holiday Best Bets: Nov. 29-Dec. 5Florida TodayAttendees are asked to bring a nonperishable food item for donation. Food will be … Indian River String Quartet: Cocoa Beach Community Church, 126 S. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach. … Holiday music will be …
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CMC to Join Body That Will Frame Policies on Liver care
The New Indian Express “We are happy to thank the community for the organ donations (harvested from brain dead persons) and we are returning something to the society by way of performing free transplantation to the poor and the needy,” Eapen said. Lack of country-based data … |
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Early autologous stem cell transplant extended PFS in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Healio Early autologous stem cell transplantation extended PFS in patients with diffuse, aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to study results. The study began with 370 patients (median page, 51 years; 59% men) whose disease had an age-adjusted … |
The AlmagestStem cell transplant repairs damaged gut in mouse model of inflammatory bowel …The AlmagestA source of gut stem cells that can repair a type of inflammatory bowel disease when transplanted into mice has been identified by researchers at t…