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A Gift that lives on - A Donor's Story
There was no premonition, no warning of death lurking around the corner. There never is. It was a happy vanload of ladies and children that started out that morning on their trip to Pondicherry. A bu...
Read MoreA Successful Liver Transplant in Chennai
The liver transplant activity livened up again when the successful liver transplant patient Chandra Sekar Pillay, 50, went home from Apollo Hospital Chennai, after a post operative stay o...
Read MoreCadver Transplant Activity in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore (1995-1998)
Delhi AIIMS 36 Kidneys 10 Hearts 4 Pancreas Army Hospital &...
Read MoreChina Again
Fuzhou General Hospital in Fujian province, China, has signed a contract with a local court to harvest the kidneys of executed prisoners. This came to light through an a...
Read MoreKidneys for sale in Thailand
The trade in organs is spreading in South East Asia and the new entrant is Thailand. Economic constraints have prompted many Thais to offer their kidneys for sale. Also, visitors who ...
Read MoreNeed for amending the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994
There is an overwhelming need to make certain amendments in the THO Act to give momentum to the flagging cadaver transplant scene in India. In 1996 the Madras Bar Association had simil...
Read MorePaving the way for an Organ Transplant Law in India
At a seminar in Teheran, Iran’s former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, urged the Iranian Parliament to pass a legislation to allow organ transplants from brain dead ...
Read MoreSnippets
Three bodies that have been sustained by one heart. In the world’s first serial transplant the organ was taken from the body of one Italian woman to another, who also died, ...
Read MoreThe Debate on Allocation
THE DEBATE ON ALLOCATION The two problems that eternally confront cadaver transplantation surgery are availability of organs and how those organs should be allocated-should it be t...
Read MoreThe Promotion and Organisation of Organ and Tissue Donation in the Southern Thames Region, United Kingdom
Jenny Warner Regional Transplant Coordinator I am fortunate to be one of five transplant co-ordinators (procurement), working in the largest region in the country, South Thames, densely p...
Read MoreTransplant Facts
Transplant Facts 1. Longest surviving kidney transplant patient -34 years 2. Longest surviving liver transplant patient- 27 years 3. Longest surviving heart transplant patient -22 years 4...
Read MoreUnique Diabetes Cure
A Michigan woman has become the first person to undergo an experimental cell transplant that doctors hope will lead to a cure for diabetes. The woman, Jackie Warren Demijohn, had be...
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