CHENNAI: Setting precedence in the country for overseas transplant, stem cells from a 50-year-old woman in Nagpur were donated to treat a 40-year-old South Asian patient awaiting a transplant in a London hospital. The patient abroad was suffering from …
Richard Norris, 37, spent 15 years hiding from society. An accidental gunshot wound in 1997 had ripped away much of his face in an instant. Doctors tried to repair the damage, but their reconstruction efforts, time and again, failed.
Science CodexCountry needs 50000 liver transplants: Retd (Col) SethIndian ExpressWith less than 1,000 liver transplants and barely 10 per cent from brain dead patients, Col (retd) A K Seth, member of the Government of India committee on formulating gui…
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E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and later won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, has died in Seattle at age 92
She was kept alive by an artificial heart for over a month.
Twenty years ago a middle-aged woman from Girrawheen was pictured on the front page of The West Australian, excitedly waiting for a heart transplant that she hoped would give her a few more years of life to see her teenage son grow up.
It's not just for status updates and photo sharing — social media has become an important outlet for patients in desperate need of organ donors. Debra Karby, a 37-year-old mother from Vancouver with a rare and aggressive form of liver sarcoma, is …
Richard Lee Norris, 37, who lost most of his face in a gun accident in 1997, and underwent the most extensive full face transplant ever seven months ago, is "exceeding all expectations", his doctors announced this week. Richard Lee Norris had…
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA -Novelties in the cell therapy applied to organ …Equities.comThe conference, in the Aula Magna of the Historic Building, will be opened by the researcher Josep M. Grinyo, professor of Medicine at the UB, head of the Nephrology…