The global organ shortage is a crisis, but is it a crisis with a cure? Some countries believe- it is. To overcome the problem of organ shortage many countries have used “Presumed consent” (PC) – as the method of consent for organ ...
The eternal shortage of organs for transplantation means that all avenues to utilise a donated organ should be explored. Mannami M et al. (2008) have investigated one such avenue (as reported in the Am J Transplant 8:811-818 and Nature Clinical ...
It is the brainchild of University of Toledo’s Dr. Michael Rees; he describes it as the gift that keeps on giving…..meet the never-ending altruistic donor. Dr. Rees says the real challenge is getting funding to pay for the donors to ...
Kidney transplants can signal a return to an absolutely normal life and that was amply demonstrated at Euro 2008 by 28-yearold Ivan Klasnic. He not only returned to playing top class football just over a year after undergoing a kidney transplant ...
For Mr. S. Murali, a retired airman of the Indian Air Force, and his wife, M. Sivakumari, facing up to the death of their six-year-old son, M. Sivakumar was the ultimate test of courage. While at home in Chidambaram, Sivakumar, a Standard I student ...
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. MOHAN Foundation has been striving over the past decade to involve people from different walks of life to join it in its journey to create awareness about organ donation. The post-graduate ...
Lalitha Dharmalingam’s family could not have forerseen that a routine evening walk could turn into a tragedy. Lalitha, a resident of Peerkankaranai, Chennai, was hit by an autorickshaw on 17th May 2008 when she was walking near her home. She ...
Bangladesh’s kidney transplant programme has been active for over five years and they have done close to 400 kidney transplants. More recently the country accepted brain death legislation and they now hope to start the deceased ...
The HCL Experience - a special feature on the organ donation initiative by HCL Technologies, Chennai. The buzzword is corporate social responsibility; but it hasn’t been just words, but words followed by defi nite action in much of the ...
Continuing our series on religion and organ donation, we present here a compilation of views on Buddhism and organ donation. Buddhists believe organ donation is a personal decision and should be left to an individual’s ...
The Union Parliament had enacted the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) in 1994 and the Act came into force in February, 1995. The main purpose of the Act is to regulate the removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for ...
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