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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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)