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 similar ideas. It formed a committee headed by the ...
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 been suffering since she was seven from Type I ...
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 individuals. He said that Islam does not ...
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 find themselves desperate for cash ...
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 agent based in Taiwan who was involved in ...
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 of a fortnight. Five liver transplants have ...
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, then into a man. There are 69 organ ...
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 to the person who has waited the longest, the ...
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 populated with 7 million people, covering some 48 ...
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 bus and a drunken driver later, all that remained ...
Delhi AIIMS 36 Kidneys 10 Hearts 4 Pancreas Army Hospital 1 Kidney ...
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. Longest surviving lung transplant patient ...