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What is the cause for low organ donation rates in Canada?
Low organ rates in Canada are attributable to; guess what “clean and Healthy living”! According to a report entitled “Donation Matters – Demographics and ...
Read MoreAwareness films on organ donation made
The key to educating people about organ donation has been reaching out to them through the mass media. Christian Medical College, Vellore has made a beginning in this direction by making a short film...
Read MoreBrain Death and organ donation
INDIAN EXPERIENCE WITH SOCIAL, MORAL AND ETHICAL ISSUE Starting with this issue, we present the first of the series of case study of real life situations. These case studies were discuss...
Read MoreEuropean Transplantation Activity – 1999
The pacemaker can be removed and implanted into another person according to experts. EUROPEAN TRANSPLANTATION ACTIVITY – 1999 COUNTRY KIDNEY KIDNEY FROM ...
Read MoreFeedback
" Is there any use for a pacemaker, which is implanted in me a very expensive sigma one for Rs. 2.5 Lakhs, my cost - which can be removed from my body when I die and used for someone who can't afford...
Read MoreFirst heart transplant recipient in India doing fine
Seven years down the line and the first heart transplant recipient in India, Mr. Devi Ram, is hale and hearty. The transplant was performed at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi &nb...
Read MoreFirst Xenotransplant Surgeon Dies
The man credited with being the first to show that non-human organs can function for a significant period of time died on June 23 rd this year in the U.S.A. He was heart transplant surgeon Keith Ree...
Read MoreHand Transplants
First US Hand Transplant Patient Does Things Hands On! He can do it! The recipient of the world’s second (and the US’s first) hand transplant can use the hand to throw a ...
Read MoreHeart Transplant
Hope For The Year 2000 – The Jarvik 2000 Heart Robert Jarvik, the New York based inventor of Jarvik 2000 heart was a happy man this year. The thumb-sized intraventricular assist device w...
Read MoreHighlights of the 18th International Congress of International Transplantation society, Rome, Italy
Summary by Dr. Georgi Abraham, Consultant Nephrologist, Chennai The Eighteenth International Congress of the transplantation society was held in the famous city of Rome in the last week of Augus...
Read MoreInaugral speech of His Holiness Pope John Paul II
XVIII International Congress of the Transplantation Society Rome, August 29, 2000 Distinguished Ladies and Gentleman, I am happy to greet all of you at this International Congr...
Read MoreISLET cell transplantation
“Edmonton Protocol” Offers Hope for Diabetics “The Edmonton Protocol” developed by James Shapiro, MD and colleagues of the university of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada invol...
Read MoreIssues related to kidney recipients
COLD ISCHAEMIA TIME IMPORTANT FACTOR IN OUTCOME OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT Prolonged cold ischaemia time versus better HLA matching their impact on the outcome of renal transplant has been the subject...
Read Moreliver Transplant
Bridge for end stage liver diease patients Laboratory grown liver cells may be the answer for patients with ESLD waiting for a liver transplant and also for the treatment of inherited live...
Read MoreMexican Government Considering Presumed Consent System
Could “Presumed Consent” be the answer to Mexico’s abysmally low organ donation rates? The policy in existence since 1984 is one of “Informed Consent”. It is es...
Read MoreOrgan Donation films for television
The Television is the most important impressionable media. For many years the Eye donation Programme has advertised on this media and to a great extent the media has played a role in popularizing thi...
Read MorePancreas Transplantation
$5 Million Effort to Study Beta Cell Transplantation Giving a significant thrust to the war against Diabetes, President Clinton announced a $5 Million effort to study beta cell transplantation. ...
Read MorePig Organ Transplants set to get the NOD
Xeno-transplantation is on an upswing in Britain. The British government may give the okay to use pig organs for transplantation in humans based on recommendations in a report by the United Kingdom X...
Read MoreR & D in Transplantation
An Eye –opener- Artificial Silicon retina Envisioning a bright future for patients with retinitis pigmentosa are artificial silicon retinas (ASR). The ASR consists of a silicon microchip a...
Read MoreSeventh All India Transplant Games
The Seventh All India Transplant Games will be held at K.D. Singh Babu Stadium, Hazratganj, Lucknow on 17 th & 18 th February 2001 to show the public at large that our transplant patients are m...
Read MoreStem Cell Transplantation
Research in stem cell is likely to benefit not only the field of transplantation but also many other fields including oncology. These summaries include a few highlights from this research fields. ...
Read MoreTANKER Foundation Inaugurates its Mobile Dialysis Unit
On 29 th November 2000, Tamil Nadu Kidney Research Foundation inaugurated its Mobile Dialysis Unit at 766, Poonamalle High Road; Chennai-600010.This was donated by state bank of India as part o...
Read MoreU.S Transplant Games 2000
September 2000 is when the Olympics happened in Sydney but an equally special event took place in June 2000 in Florida, USA – the National kidney Foundation’s 2000 US Transplant Games. Mo...
Read MoreUnion Health Minister speaks about cadaver donation
This newsletter carries two important news items. The first is from our own union health minister, Dr. C. P Thakur about cadaver organ donation and the second is the address of the His Holiness Pope ...
Read MoreWorkshop on Intensive Care of the brain dead donor held
For details contact MOHAN Foundation A Second workshop on intensive care of the brain dead multi organ donor was held at the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, an...
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