Organised healthcare splinters into nichesDaily News & AnalysisWhile kidney care and dialysis centres are usually spread across 1,500-2,000 sq ft. Demand for them has risen as an estimated 2-3 lakh people develop kidney failure every year in India. Cha…
Giving Hope To Heart, Kidney – Leadership Newspapers
Giving Hope To Heart, KidneyLeadership NewspapersThe same statistics revealed that it cost an average of 12 pounds or $18,000 in the United States and Israel and about $12 in India to access treatment in the best government hospitals. Considering the c…
Liver transplant: Pims centre told to resume operation – DAWN.com
Liver transplant: Pims centre told to resume operationDAWN.comA senior physician treating liver patients at a private hospital added that many of “these patients have end-stage liver disease for which the only treatment is transplantation.” He said…
Take a 'pause', women's heart at risk – Daily News & Analysis
Take a 'pause', women's heart at riskDaily News & AnalysisIf you thought women were less vulnerable to heart ailments, think again. A recent report discussed in the World Congress of Cardiology this year said that cardiac diseases has incre…
Fundraiser to be held for double lung transplant recipient
MT. WASHINGTON, Ky. (WHAS11) — A young woman from Mt. Washington is in St. Louis Tuesday night awaiting a double lung transplant. Earlier in September I reported on Christena Gabehart Jones and her fight to get a second double lung transplant. Seven y…
Watch & Wait OK in Low-Tumor Burden Follicular Lymphoma – Doctors Lounge
Watch & Wait OK in Low-Tumor Burden Follicular LymphomaDoctors LoungeAn initial watch-and-wait strategy does not have a detrimental effect on the freedom from treatment failure or overall survival rate in selected patients with low-tumor burden fol…
Bike rally to encourage blood donation – Times of India
Bike rally to encourage blood donationTimes of IndiaPATNA: Students and teachers of St. Xavier's College (SXC), Digha, organized a motorcycle rally on Tuesday to encourage Patnaites to donate blood ahead of National Blood Donation Day to be observe…
Montefiore hospital reaches settlement with family of fatally botched kidney transplant mom
The family of a Bronx mom who tragically died on a Monterfiore Medical Center operating table while trying to donate a kidney to her beloved brother reached a unusually quick legal settlement with the hospital today. The amount of money that 41-year-ol…
Former New Jersey Senator Torricelli Accuser Dies of Liver Failure – NBC New York
Former New Jersey Senator Torricelli Accuser Dies of Liver FailureNBC New YorkA convicted fundraiser who accused New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli (D) of corruption died earlier this year of liver failure, NBC 4 New York has learned. David Chang die…
Seneca Falls Newborn Youngest On Heart Transplant List
Seneca Falls, N.Y. — Baby Blake called “a fighter”, suffers from rare heart condition.