Seminar on female blood diseases heldPakistan Daily TimesKARACHI: The National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone marrow Transplantation (NIBT) Sunday conducted a seminar here at a local hotel on blood diseases suffered by women during pregnancy. The…
Kazakhstan doctors in search for stem cells donorsTengrinewsToday we would like to raise awareness of the methods of bone marrow transplantation. Our technologies allow to make it almost as simple as blood donorship. I think Kazakhstan residents will u…
Not even 50 donors at eye donation campTimes of IndiaThe objective is to create mass awareness regarding eye donation after death, so that more corneal transplantation may be performed to restore the eyesight of visually challenged persons. Talking to …
Particular Donor Genotype Lowers Leukemia Relapse RateDoctors LoungePatients with acute myeloid leukemia who receive a stem cell transplant from a donor with activating killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor genotype KIR2DS1, which has ligand specifi…
College identity cards to list organ donation nodTimes of IndiaThe government will soon launch an awareness campaign to encourage people to donate their eyes and other organs. Hospitals with more than 25 beds, an operation theatre and an ICU will be al…
Hospitals need to inform about brain dead patients: Maha govtDeccan HeraldMaharashtra Government today decided to make it mandatory for hospitals to inform organ transplant centres through divisional transplant co-ordination committees about brain dead…
National PostThis week in religion history: A time for dreamsNational Post2003: At least 50 people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious festival at Godavari River in Nasik, in western India. 2011: Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, the retired archb…
ON THE MOVEAlbany Times UnionDr. Ira L. Zackon was named director of the Stem Cell Transplant Program at the NYOH facility at Albany Medical Center. Zackon, board certified in medical oncology and hematology, served as a research fellow in hematology/o…
Eye donation fortnight beginsTimes of India"Their sight can be restored after corneal transplantation operation if we get eyes in donation after death. The objective of the eye donation fortnight is to create mass public awareness regarding eye do…
Captive elephant, Sunder, to be finally freed from Kolhapur templeTimes of IndiaThe abuse of Sunder highlights the scandal that is growing over the way elephants used in Indian temples to represent the Hindu god Ganesha are being housed and mistreated….