Wall Street JournalWhat You Lose When You Sign That Donor CardWall Street JournalThe most likely donors are victims of head trauma (from, say, a car or motorcycle accident), spontaneous bleeding in the head, or an aneurysm—patients who can be ruled d…
Register online for organ donation – Times of India
Register online for organ donationTimes of IndiaNEW DELHI: Delhi government launched an online registration system for voluntary organ donation in brain death cases on Friday. Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) has been given the responsibi…
Fake and Gray Market Drugs Vex US Oncologists – The Oncology Report
The Oncology ReportFake and Gray Market Drugs Vex US OncologistsThe Oncology ReportThe agency named Faslodex (fulvestrant), Neupogen (filgrastim), Rituxan (rituximab) and Herceptin (trastuzumab) – but not Avastin – in the warning. Subsequently, the…
India needs to bring down tax,duty on medicine imports – Indian Express
India needs to bring down tax,duty on medicine importsIndian Express“Though even now, if we compare the cost of the liver transplant surgery with other Asian countries such as Singapore or USA or UK, India is still more affordable. But this cost can …
To boost organ donation,govt launches online registration – Indian Express
To boost organ donation,govt launches online registrationIndian ExpressTo boost organ donations in the state, the Delhi Government has launched an online registration system for voluntary organ donation in case of a brain death. The Deceased Organ and …
Can donating organs be painful even after you've flatlined? – Macleans.ca (blog)
Macleans.ca (blog)Can donating organs be painful even after you've flatlined?Macleans.ca (blog)He explained that organ donation used to be performed in Canada only in “neurologically devastated” individuals who fit the criteria of “brain deat…
Stem cell donors needed – Mississauga
Toronto StarStem cell donors neededMississaugaKatie Chong (right) was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome last September and needs a stem cell transplant. But, as a bi-racial person with a Caucasian mother and Chinese father, her chances of finding…
Engineering Organs To Solve Donor Shortage – Medical News Today
Daily MailEngineering Organs To Solve Donor ShortageMedical News TodayThis novel approach to regenerate and transplant organs does not require the need for human donors, and would therefore alleviate rejection problems and the need for immunosuppressiv…
To Your Health: VAD therapy can improve lives for those with heart failure – Montgomery Newspapers
To Your Health: VAD therapy can improve lives for those with heart failureMontgomery NewspapersFor more than two decades, the 61-year-old Southampton man has been treated for congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart fails to pump enough…
Cells may spare kidney transplant rejection drugs – Chicago Defender
Telegraph.co.ukCells may spare kidney transplant rejection drugsChicago Defenderby Lauran Neergaard WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental technique seems to be freeing some kidney transplant patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs. Researchers …