16-year-old athlete organ donor saves 6 patientsJerusalem PostAccording to Israel Transplant, Veturi's heart was given to a 56-year-old man who had an ADI organ donation card and was thus jumped ahead of the queue; his lungs were transplanted into …
PGI works out new norms to treat lung infections – Times of India
PGI works out new norms to treat lung infectionsTimes of IndiaRevised guidelines for treatment of lung infections have been formulated by PGI's department of pulmonary medicine, which also is a WHO collaborating center for research and capacity bui…
A womb of her own: risking uterus transplant for pregnancy – The Conversation
A womb of her own: risking uterus transplant for pregnancyThe ConversationOn a weekend in mid-September 2012, a team of gynaecologists and transplant specialists at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden, performed two uterus transplants with living…
Moriguchi admits to lying about stem cell trial
Hisashi Moriguchi, a Japanese researcher who had said he implemented the world's first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology, admitted Saturday most of what he claimed in an academic conference presentation about the procedure wa…
Drug class linked to worse outcomes after transplant – Medical Xpress
Drug class linked to worse outcomes after transplantMedical XpressTamara Isakova, M.D., from the University of Miami, and colleagues compared clinical outcomes in 139,370 kidney transplant patients in the United States receiving mTOR inhibitors or calc…
Intestinal transplant patient fit
Australia's first intestinal transplant recipient can eat and work full-time for the first time in 14 years.
City hospital conducts first liver transplant on adult – SGGP
SGGPCity hospital conducts first liver transplant on adultSGGPCity hospital conducts first liver transplant on adult. The first successful liver transplant surgery on an adult in Ho Chi Minh City was performed on a 52-year-old woman from Dak Nong Provi…
Homeless Indian in Oman wants to end life – gulfnews.com
gulfnews.comHomeless Indian in Oman wants to end lifegulfnews.com“I am living in a farmhouse, suffering with hernia, kidney pain, and joint pains,” Rafiq wrote to the MRC which is based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. He also wrote that h…
Women are prone to heart disease – Times of India
Women are prone to heart diseaseTimes of IndiaAlmost 71 percent of women in India sense early warnings of heart attacks with sudden weakness but misunderstand it as flu. Women with hypertension suffer 3.5 times more from coronary heart disease than wom…
Liow: Organ donor pledges up by 77.7 percent since 2010 – The Star Online
Liow: Organ donor pledges up by 77.7 percent since 2010The Star OnlineLiow, while launching National Organ Donation Awareness Week in Insitute Jantung Negara (IJN) Sunday said that there are now 205,478 pledged organ donors in the country, 77.7 percent…