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“Youth for Organ Donation Awareness”
GROUP STARTED IN USA Youth for Organ Donation Awareness (YODA), is yet another example of social initia...
Read MoreBrain Death & Organ Donation – Legal & Ethical issues
CASE STUDY 3: HANG OR HARVEST SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION: Was the hanging a suicide or was it really a homicide? Is it all right to retrieve organs from a young woman who has died under unnatura...
Read MoreCadaver Transplant Activity All India Figures (1995 – June 2001)
Place Period of Activity Kidney Heart Liver Lungs Pancreas Ahmedabad Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research ...
Read MoreCadaver Transplantation in India – 1995-2001
This issue carries the National figures of Cadaver Transplantation done from our country. In the last two years there have been just over 110 cadaver organ transplants. The comparison of the ...
Read MoreCadaveric Organ and Eye donation remains flats in 2000 IN USA
According to new data released by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), cadaveric organ and eye donors remained almost flat in 2000 compared to 1...
Read MoreCelebrating life – the 7th All India Transplant Games
The 7 th All India Transplant Games held at Lucknow on February 17 th & 18 th reaffirmed the success of organ transplantation once again and become a special occasion where t...
Read MoreHeart Transplantation
BENEFITS OF LYMPHOID IRRADIATION IN HEART TRANSPLANTATION RELATED ANTHEROSCLEROSIS Lymphoid irradiation could make a comeback once again after being supplanted by immunosuppressive drugs during ...
Read MoreHeart Transplants
Good news in the offing for hypertensive heart transplant recipient? Heart transplant recipient with hypertension may have something to look forward to in the future with respect to preventio...
Read MoreIslet Cell Transplantation
ISLET CELL AUTOTRANSPLANTATION Researches at the University of Leicester in England, conducted a study to throw some light on the effect of islet auto transplantation (IAT) in patients with...
Read MoreIslet cell Transplantation
GOOD LONG-TERM RESULTS WITH EDMONTON PROTOCOL James Shapiro MD had good news to share at the Experimental Biology 2001 mee...
Read MoreIssues related to Kidney Transplantation
Beneficial role of ketoconazole in kidney recipients The Americans journal of Kidney Disease (2001:37:510-517) has reported the results of a study on the long term administration of the ...
Read MoreKidney Transplants
MIXED CHIMERISM-A NEW APPROACH TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: The Experimental Biology 2001 meet...
Read MoreLiver Transplants
RIGHT VERSUS LEFT: Right grafts versus left liver transplants- the winner; the “rights” have it. A multicenter team of European researchers have found that survival rates for sp...
Read MoreMade in India
The US Patent No.6227202 read “The inventor indeed was able to successfully repair / regenerate the organs in human beings”. Dr. Balkrishna Matapurkar Stem cell research for regener...
Read MoreMore Allegations About Organ Trade in China
Dr. Wang Quoqui, who left China a year ago and is now living in the US, told a House of representative subcommittee on Human rights, that his work required him to remove the skin and corneas fr...
Read MoreNew Initiatives to reduce Organ Shortage
A new blitzkrieg was launched in USA, in April 2001, by the Secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS), Tommy Thompson. It was aimed at trying to reduce the increasing disparity between the member o...
Read MoreR & D in Transplantation
STEM CELL RESEARCH HOLDS OUT PROMISE FOR THE DEAF It is possible that in the future profound deafness could be reversed in people. Holding out this promise is the research in m...
Read MoreThe New Organ Bazaars
Turkey and Eastern Europe are all set to take over from India and China as the new “organ bazaars” for trade in kidneys. In an all too familiar tale it has been established that unscrupu...
Read MoreWill Stem cell research in the US be backed by federal funds
The bush administration is looking for answers in the case for allowing federal funds to be used for stem cell research. Federal researchers have said that embryonic stem research should be including...
Read MoreWorking together – INOS Meet in Chennai
It was the spirit of sharing that brought about the formation of the “Initiative for organ sharing group” in Chennai and it is the same spirit that keeps the group moving forward. In the ...
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