Kidney 'exchange' to give husbands new lifeTimes of IndiaKOLKATA: Two women, bound by a similar plight, have decided to donate their kidneys to each other's husband so that they can be blessed with a longer life. Unknown to one another even…
Garden City woman receives double transplant
Tabitha Phillips is recovering Wednesday night at a hospital in Atlanta, after receiving a kidney and pancreas transplant.
UK suggests ethically controversial strategies to increase organ donations – Lifesite
UK suggests ethically controversial strategies to increase organ donationsLifesiteAmong the most contentious is the suggestion of “elective ventilation,” whereby patients considered to be close to “brain death” would be started on ventilation a…
'People in India love to dress up' – Deccan Herald
'People in India love to dress up'Deccan HeraldThe change of venue of the Bangalore Fashion Week, from Electronic City to a hotel in the heart of the City, did well to attract a lot of expats. There was a fair sprinkling of expats among the aud…
VIDEO: Teenager appeals for organ donor
An East Sussex teenager who needs a double lung transplant has appealed on YouTube for people to sign up to the organ donor register.
Researchers implicate unique cell type in multiple sclerosis – Medical Xpress
Researchers implicate unique cell type in multiple sclerosisMedical XpressOngoing clinical trials have shown that daclizumab appears to help quiet the autoimmune response in MS patients, but its precise effects on the legions of cells that make up the …
Gujarat Hindu, Muslim families swap kidneys – Times of India
Gujarat Hindu, Muslim families swap kidneysTimes of IndiaAHMEDABAD: Two families – one Hindu and the other Muslim – will come together in the most unique fashion on Rakshabandhan day. There will, of course, be an exchange of rakhis, but more importantl…
Transplant gives Passon a new lease on life
At 33 years of age, Spring Lake’s Ronda Passon got a new lease on life thanks to organ donation. read more
N.B. woman's body rejecting new set of lungs
A New Brunswick woman who recently had a double-lung transplant is experiencing some setbacks.
Unique Cell Type in Implicated in Multiple Sclerosis – Science Daily (press release)
Unique Cell Type in Implicated in Multiple SclerosisScience Daily (press release)The new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that one effect of daclizumab is to thin the ranks of lymphoid tissue inducer (LTi) cells. These cells ar…