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 John Paul II from Rome at the Transplantation ...
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 this noble concept in India. Today more than 4000 ...
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. More than 7000 transplant recipient athletes, their ...
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 Xeno-transplantation Interim Regulatory Authority. ...
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 estimated that about 1,000 organ transplants ...
Low organ rates in Canada are attributable to; guess what “clean and Healthy living”! According to a report entitled “Donation Matters – Demographics and organ transplant in Canada,2000 to 2004 by the ...
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 mentally, socially and physically healthy and can ...
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 Reemtsma MD (74). Dr. Reemtsma, was chairman of the ...
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 by a team of surgeons headed by ...
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 based on a real life situation in their ...
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, and Chennai in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation ...
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 of its Community Services Projects. Mr. ...
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 Congress, which has brought you together for a ...
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 August and the first week of September this year. The ...
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 discussed at the two workshops on” intensive care ...
" 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 one. - Dr. V.R.S. Arni ...
The pacemaker can be removed and implanted into another person according to experts. EUROPEAN TRANSPLANTATION ACTIVITY – 1999 COUNTRY KIDNEY KIDNEY FROM LIVING DONORS LIVER HEART ...
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 was permanently implanted into a 61 years old man ...
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 ball, tie his shoes and turn the pages of the ...
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 liver diseases. Stephen Storm, MD of the ...
$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. 10 sites will receive funds for the clinical ...
“Edmonton Protocol” Offers Hope for Diabetics “The Edmonton Protocol” developed by James Shapiro, MD and colleagues of the university of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada involves injecting islet cells into liver ...
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 of a study by John Roberts, MD and colleagues of ...
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 about one- tenth of an inch in diameter and one ...
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. An Alternative to Neural Stem Cell ...