Smart move to drive cadaver donationsTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: In a ground-breaking move that hopes to lift the state's dismal cadaver donation count-which stands at less than 300 organs…
Mumbai trader detained in China living on footpath – Times of India
Mumbai trader detained in China living on footpathTimes of IndiaThe case is being heard in the Yiwu province in south China. At their Elphinstone Road apartment, Jyoti suffered a heart attack. Her appeal to the Indian government is on the ground that h…
Red tape kills teenage kidney patient – Times of India
Red tape kills teenage kidney patientTimes of IndiaMUMBAI: The day 18-year-old James Dilip Mirpagare breathed his last in a city hospital, his parents got the call they had been awaiting for two months. A directorate of medical research official told t…
Study: Obesity surgery can help prevent diabetes
preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found.
Boxer Johnny Tapia Died of Heart Failure Says His Wife – Hispanically Speaking News
Hispanically Speaking NewsBoxer Johnny Tapia Died of Heart Failure Says His WifeHispanically Speaking NewsToday, Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion, Johnny Tapia's wife disclosed that the boxer died from heart disease back in May of t…
Tracking infectious outbreaks by their genomes
A New York City patient carrying a multi-drug-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a microbe frequently associated with hospital-borne infections, introduced the dangerous bacteria into the 243-bed research hospital while participating in a clini…
Organ donation gets a boost, 60 pledge support – Times of India
Organ donation gets a boost, 60 pledge supportTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More … KOLKATA: Kangkan Aich died on March 27, 2009, as doctors at SSKM Hospital desperately looked for an organ donor to give the Bijoygar…
Delhi government to high court: May ban tobacco products – Times of India
Delhi government to high court: May ban tobacco productsTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More …. Delhi high court: Distant kin can also be donors Organ Transplant · Release Western Ghats report, Delhi high…
UTMC halts kidney transplant program
The University of Toledo Medical Center has suspended its living kidney transplant program after an undisclosed incident.
Ultra-fast whole-genome sequencing led researchers to patient zero and source of hospital infection
NEW YORK (Reuters) – If Hollywood needs a plot for a medical thriller, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have one: Doctors, using cutting-edge technology called whole-genome sequencing, trace an outbreak of a deadly bacterial infection, …