Today’s THVAt 5: Your heart health with Baptist HealthToday’s THV"The state's first open-heart surgery performed at a private hospital was at Baptist Health in 1966 and the state's first heart transplantation surgery in 1989. Since 1964, B…
Daily BhaskarCM Gowda comes to the aid of ailing Hubli teenagerDaily BhaskarBangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, on Tuesday, said expenses for kidney transplantation of a boy from Hubli would be provided from Chief Minister's Rel…
YRG CARE Bioethics Symposium 2012 to be held in ChennaiExpress Pharma… Chennai; Dr Liza Dawson, Team Leader, Research Ethics Team, Basic Sciences Programme, Division of AIDS, NIAID/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, MD; Dr Sanjay Nagral, Surgical Gastroenterology, …
Government ignores desperate patients needing organsThe HinduThe average waiting period for patients needing kidney transplantation in Hyderabad and elsewhere in the State hovers between three and four years. Waiting period for liver is a year while fo…
Website on kidney ailments launchedIBNLive.com"Incidence of kidney failure is increasing rapidly and treatments like dialysis and kidney transplantation are very costly. Only 5 to 10 per cent of the Indian population can afford it." The websi…
Pregnancy after Kidney TransplantdailyRxWhile kidney transplants have been shown to improve reproductive health in women with kidney failure, there is limited information about pregnancy outcomes after kidney transplantation. For this reason, Dorry Seg…
Match made in hospital: Kidney transplant patients to wedDaily News & AnalysisA couple who got admitted in KEM hospital for kidney transplantation in 2006, will tie the knot on New Year Day. Senior nephrologist from Hinduja hospital Dr Jatin Kothari sa…
'Liver twins' survive after double life-saving surgeryYour Local GuardianThe Split liver transplantation (SLT) operation means both an adult, and a child can benefit from the same donated liver. Maya, aged one, was then able to recover form bil…
Docs perform surgery on transplanted kidneyTimes of IndiaThe patient, a resident of Mumbai, had undergone kidney transplantation almost 20 years ago. Since it was a transplanted kidney, it is not possible to use the usual procedure of retrograde ureter…
Belmont Rapid Infuser used in first liver transplantation in IraqBoston.comBy DC Denison, Globe Staff The Belmont Rapid Infuser, manufactured in Billerica, was just used in the first ever liver transplant in Iraq. Dr. Assad Hassoun, liver transplant su…