Robin Roberts will begin to undergo bone-marrow transplant tomorrow morning, she says. Roberts (pictured), the “Good Morning America” co-host who’s on medical leave while being treated for a rare immune disease, posted a message on the show’s b…
Death Without Religion – Religion Dispatches
Death Without ReligionReligion DispatchesBut the real problems began in 1968, when a Harvard Medical School committee determined that brain death occurs when the patient suffers a “loss of personhood,” or a “permanently nonfunctioning brain.” T…
Lung transplant recipient now has Facebook behind her organ donor campaign – TheTyee.ca
Macleans.caLung transplant recipient now has Facebook behind her organ donor campaignTheTyee.caCampbell, whose social media organ donation campaign caught the attention of celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and Justin Bieber, says she's excited …
Civil servants' blood donation – China Daily
Civil servants' blood donationChina DailyQingdao, in Shandong province, has set up a Civil Servant Blood Donation Day, the first of its kind in China, to address a shortage of blood, China National Radio reported on Sunday. Officials said college s…
Strong-hearted 78-yr-old sails through surgery – Times of India
Strong-hearted 78-yr-old sails through surgeryTimes of IndiaAfflicted with an advance kidney cancer, Kawal with her positive attitude has been able to undergo a major 5-hour surgery despite 15-25% deaths reported during such operations, especially amon…
Heart transplant girl dies after complaining of chest pain
BATU PAHAT: Tee Hui Yee, the girl who had a heart transplant that grabbed media attention five years […]
Bone Marrow Match Found For Ojai Boy
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 By Misty Volaski Friday at 11:30 a.m., Jake Larkin finally got what he and his family had been praying for: a life-saving bone marrow transplant. The 6-year-old grandson of Oaks at Ojai owners Don and Sheila Cluff has been b…
Double heart transplant girl dies
BATU PAHAT: Miracle girl Tee Hui Yi, who underwent a double heart transplant in 2007, has died. The 19-year-old, who had survived with a mechanical heart before the two transplants, died at the Batu Pahat Hospital at 10.02am yesterday the day she was t…
3. Double heart transplant girl dies
BATU PAHAT: Miracle girl Tee Hui Yi, who underwent a double heart transplant in 2007, has died. The 19-year-old, who had survived with a mechanical heart before the two transplants, died at the Batu Pahat Hospital at 10.02am Tuesday – the day she…
ET Awards 2012: Devi Prasad Shetty putting his heart & soul into caregiving – Economic Times
ET Awards 2012: Devi Prasad Shetty putting his heart & soul into caregivingEconomic Times"Twelve per cent of all heart surgeries conducted in India are done at Narayana Hrudayalaya. So vendors supply materials to us at a lower cost as they can…