City scientists trying to grow liver in lab
New Delhi: You may have heard of kidney dialysis but did you know that even the liver can be flushed of its toxins using a similar method? At the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi, the
Organ Transplant
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Artificial livers: Scientists achieve breakthrough
MIT researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have made a breakthrough that may lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation. The scientists’ attempts at exploiting the ability
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Docs rebuild human liver from a tissue of cow’s heart
London: A woman from Liverpool, who was suffering from an incurable liver cancer, was saved by using a tissue from a cow’s heart to rebuild her liver. Michelle Morgan-Grainger became one of the first
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Organ donation mission launched
Fr Paul Madan, director of Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly, inaugurating the organ donation mission and receiving the first agreement letter of hospital administrator P V Thomas. A D Wilson, N V Paulachan,
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Organ donation scene uninspiring in State
GUWAHATI, Sept 23 – Even as a few individuals come forward to pledge their organs for donation, the trend in Assam does not appear encouraging. Like some other parts of India, donors willing to pledge
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In Kerala village, 2 from each family to donate organs
Alappuzha: About 400 residents of a Kerala village have pledged to donate their organs after death. Two members above 18 years from each family of Veliyambra village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district
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Organ donation rules set to get tougher: ‘Unscientific’ Hurdles In Draft Law
Want to donate an organ for a “not-so-near” relative in dire need of a transplant? You might have to prove that the recipient and you have been staying together and sharing the same kitchen for 10 years
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Illegal ‘Live’ Organ Trade on Rise as Donors Fail to Volunteer
Getting right donor at right time remains a far cry here as superstitions, non-declaration of brain-dead patients make 1000s die for want of donors As many as 1.25 lakh Indians died in road accidents
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B’lore gets a ‘licence’ to donate organs
Bangalore: Motorists who wish to donate their organs after they die can now carry a sticker in their driving licence, affirming their pledge, thus making it easy to harvest organs in case of fatal accidents
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Organ transplant: 90% cut in budget
Even as the Health Ministry has introduced a series of amendments to the organ transplant Act to give a boost to the national programme, the budget for the National Organ Transplantation Programme (NOTP)