Al-ShorfaQatar opens organ donation centreAl-Shorfa… EMAIL; increase decrease. Qatar launched its first organ donation centre last week on Wednesday (August 8th), with First Lady Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Misnad becoming the first person to regist…
Vilasrao Deshmukh is dead – Deccan Herald
Vilasrao Deshmukh is deadDeccan HeraldThough his sons wished to donate part of their liver (for an auxiliary transplant), the doctors said given the patient's condition, “it would be better for him to receive a whole organ from a cadaver as that …
Heart failure drug approved by EU – Queensferry Gazette
Heart failure drug approved by EUQueensferry GazetteA pill costing £1.40 a day “could save the lives of thousands of heart disease patients”, according to the Daily Mail. Several other newspapers have reported on the drug ivabradine, known by the …
Firefly sheds new light on Bronson Battle Creek surgeries – Battle Creek Enquirer
Firefly sheds new light on Bronson Battle Creek surgeriesBattle Creek EnquirerDr. Kevin Brewton, an urologist and member of the BBC medical staff is the first physician in Southwest Michigan to use this minimally invasive surgery technology for a parti…
Doctors waited four days for suitable donor
Mumbai, Aug. 15 — Doctors treating former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, in Chennai, waited for four days to find a liver donor for him, but failed to find a suitable match.Deshmukh was advised a liver transplant after he was diagnosed …
Pa. Mom’s Efforts For Heart Transplant For Autistic Son Highlights Complexity Of Decision
A Schuylkill County, Pa. mother has turned to an online petition web site to try to get a Philadelphia hospital to put her adult son on a heart transplant list.
Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac arrest: Doctor – Times of India
Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac arrest: DoctorTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac failure, said renowned doctor Mohammed Rela of Chennai's Global…
Claim: Heart Transplant Denied Due To Man’s Autism
Karen Corby says she was "stunned" when doctors turned down her 23-year-old son for a heart transplant citing his autism diagnosis. Now she's hoping an online petition could change his fortune.
Hepatitis B: The silent killer – Hindu Business Line
Hepatitis B: The silent killerHindu Business LineIn Taiwan, a similar intervention is reversing the prevalence of liver cancer in kids, he added. In India, about 25-40 million people have Hepatitis B and a lakh die each year from serious liver diseases…
Engineered pancreatic tissues could lead to better transplants for diabetics
Researchers have built pancreatic tissue with insulin-secreting cells, surrounded by a three-dimensional network of blood vessels. When they transplanted the tissue into diabetic mice, the cells began functioning well enough to lower blood sugar levels…