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‘Pratibha’- Organ Donation Awareness by Students in Chennai
‘Prathibha’- 'splendour' ‘brilliance’ was the name of the thematic exhibition organized by the students of GK Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College, Ambattur, Chennai in...
Read MoreAnnual Function to Honor the Families of Cadaver Organ Donors Held At the Karnataka Raj Bhavan
On the 10 th of January, 2002, the Karnataka Raj Bhavan played host to the FORTE Donor Award Ceremony. These awards were instituted to accord public recognition to the families of organ donors ...
Read MoreBrain Death & Organ Donation – Medical, Legal & Ethical issues
Case study 5: All Or None (Case discussed at brain death symposium held by MOHAN Foundation at CMC Hospital, Vellore in year 2001) 16 year old boy brought to the emergency in unconscious state. ...
Read MoreCorneal Transplant
Researchers working at Kyoto Prefectural University of medicine. Japan have come up with a transplant technique that is suitable for acute ocular injury as well as chronic phase patients with massiv...
Read MoreEyes
An Eyeopener - Artificial Silicon retinas Envisioning a bright future for patients with retinitis pigmentosa are artificial silicon retinas (ASR). The ASR consists of a silicon microchip about o...
Read MoreFirst Heart Transplant Recipient Climbs Up!
Kelly Perkine, 40, has faced really steep health problems, but six year after receiving a life-saving heart transplant. She decided to tackle something steeper, literally. The 19,340 foot high Mount ...
Read MoreImmunosuppressants
Rapemune Available in tablet form Rapemune (Sirolimus), an Immunosuppressant from Wyeth-Ayerst laboratories, was approved for use in the US in September 1999 for kidney transplant p...
Read MoreInteresting report on Organ trafficking from “Organ watch”
Ms. Nancy Scheper – Hughes, of “Organ watch” (an international NGO tracking Human organs commercialization), presented her findings in a speech to the United States Congress on June...
Read MoreIssues related to Kidney Recipients
NUTRITION GUIDELINES FOR CRF PATIENTS A long felt need in the case of children and adults with chronic renal failure has been addressed by the National Kidney Foundation, USA. It had released th...
Read MoreKidney Racket in Peru
The kidney trade seems to be spreading its tentacles all over, the latest entrant being Peru. A growing number of Americans who need a Kidney and who are willing to pay almost anything have made Peru...
Read MoreKidney Trade Rules The Roost in Bangalore
NGO's like FORTE promoting cadaveric organ transplantation have never had it so tough with Bangalore being labelled the center for kidney trading in India through unrelated kidney transplants. Thi...
Read MoreLiver Transplant for HIV Positive Patient:
Larry Kramer, 66, a renowned playwright and novelist in the US needed a liver transplant because of end stage liver failure caused by hepatitis B. there was one major catch, though. He was HIV positi...
Read MoreLiver Transplants
Time – Saving Liver Transplant Technique In a field where time holds the key Dr. Elmahdi Elkhammas and D Mitchell Henry from Ohio State University Medical Centre...
Read MoreMy Unsung Hero- Mr.N.Sethuraman
Born in a staunch orthodox Hindu family a vision of universal brotherhood, in the year 1949, my husband completed schooling from Tanjore District and did his...
Read MoreOrgan Donation Figures Need a Boost in Germany.
The will to give is there, but what is really needed is to translate thought into deed. Dr. Martin Molzahn, Head of the German foundation of organ transplantation [DSO] said that while 70% of Germans...
Read MoreOur Exciting Experience With “Organ Donation“ Programme at our School
C Jasmine, S Krithika, M Nagalakshmi, R Karthik G K Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College We feel proud to introduce ourselves as the students of GK SHETTY VI...
Read MoreR & D in Transplantation
Say Cheese! Researchers at the University Of Michigan School Of Dentistry in Ann Arbior and Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden may have good reason to smile. Their work on detail pulp cel...
Read MoreStem Cell Transplant
Simultaneous stem cell Transplant of help in multiple Myeloma Researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle USA presented the result of a pilot study ...
Read MoreThe ‘Required Request Law’ for Solid Organs
Eye Bank of India (EBI) has been lobbying for a ‘required request’ law to boost the eye donation programme in the country. At present, the EBI has 215 eye banks all over the country and r...
Read MoreThe Real Miracle of Transplant Surgery
In September 1999, 11 of the pioneers from them early days of transplantation were invited to meet together in California to share their recollection. At this meeting, the development of transplantat...
Read MoreTransplant Pioneer Passes Away
Boston 1954 - the world’s first successful human organ transplant, a kidney transplant between identical twins was performed. The man under whose dynamic leadership - this milestone was achieve...
Read MoreXenotransplants
“Single Knock out" Pigs Created Pigs have long been consider the most viable le animal as potential sources of organs for humans given the ever going transplant WAITING LIST THE WORLD...
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