Sciences create 'living football' using cells from a pig's bladderThe EngineerGrowing bladders from small samples of the patients' own bladder tissue reduced the risk of transplant rejection. The Liverpool team followed a similar proced…
A visionary who fathered the Amul baby – Times of India
indiabloomsA visionary who fathered the Amul babyTimes of IndiaBut soon, Verghese Kurien would turn the small Gujarat town into the heart of India's white revolution. In the process, Kurien would also stitch together a cooperative movement of milli…
Palestinians languish in long wait for critical medical care
Mohammad Twieh, an 18-year-old resident of Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, was told as a child he would not survive to adulthood without a liver transplant by 2007.
Moultrie mother in need of kidney transplant
A young mother in Moultrie needs a transplant and she hopes someone in south Georgia will be a match.
Pakistan prisoner dies of kidney ailment in Gujrat – Times of India
Pakistan prisoner dies of kidney ailment in GujratTimes of IndiaRAJKOT: A Pakistani national, serving life imprisonment, died in a hospital in Ahmedabad following kidney ailment, Rajkot district jail authorities said. Nawab Ali Mohammad Ali (45) was ar…
Combine voluntary blood donation – KanglaOnline
Combine voluntary blood donationKanglaOnlineIMPHAL, September 9: As part of its continuous effort to make Manipur a hundred per cent achiever in voluntary blood donation movement, a combined voluntary blood donation camp, jointly organised by the Assoc…
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Sir Ganga Ram's grandson, Tej Ram, 88, who died of brain haemorrhage earlier this week, donated his liver and kidneys. Three patients have benefited from the same.
Ganga Ram's owner donates his liver and kidney at 88 – Hindustan Times
Ganga Ram's owner donates his liver and kidney at 88Hindustan Times"The current demand for kidney transplants is 1, 50,000, for livers is, 2, 00,000 and heart is 1, 50,000. But in India, we are only doing 3000 kidney transplants and 500 liver …
Ganga Ram's owner donates his liver and kidney at 88
New Delhi, Sept. 10 — Sir Ganga Ram's grandson, Tej Ram, 88, who died of brain haemorrhage earlier this week, donated his liver and kidneys. Three patients have benefited from the same."He (Tej Ram) had expressed his desire to donate his orga…
Calls to cut soaring liver cancer rates
Australian and New Zealand specialists are calling for urgent action to treat more people with hepatitis B and C to slash soaring liver cancer rates.