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…
Mumbai film festival: Choosing the lucky 13 films – Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & AnalysisMumbai film festival: Choosing the lucky 13 filmsDaily News & AnalysisAfter a kidney transplant, a young stockbroker is faced with uncomfortable questions, like the source of his new kidney and the reality of trafficking human orga…
Govt, hospital launch organ donation drive – The Asian Age
Govt, hospital launch organ donation driveThe Asian AgeAccording to the statistics, thousands of patients in India die for want of organ donors. Recent data states that 1.25 lakh Indians died in road accidents in 2011 — and only less than 20,000 dona…
Indian curry spice `curbs metastases` – Zee News
Zee NewsIndian curry spice `curbs metastases`Zee NewsIn a previous study Bachmeier and her colleagues had demonstrated that the substance reduces statistically significantly the formation of lung metastases in an animal model of advanced breast cancer….