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06 May 2024

DNA: Why organ donation in India needs big reforms?

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06 Mar 2024

Delhi Painter Receives Donor Hands In A Revolutionary Organ Transplant Surgery

Organ transplantation: Recently, a painter got donor hands transplanted at Sir Gangaram Hospital in Delhi. The artist will be able to hold the brush again and work.

World Organ Donation Day

12 Aug 2023

World Organ Donation Day: Too Old To Donate Organs? Expert Debunks 10 Myths

World Organ Donation Day is observed on August 13 every year Various medical conditions don't automatically exclude you from becoming an organ donor Medical suitability for donation is assessed on a case-by-case basis, and potential donors of all ages are considered

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19 Apr 2022

CSR and crowdfunding give a new life to Eight-year-old girl

Prabhgun was suffering from chronic liver disease since the age of four The lockdown due to Covid-19 worsen her health condition She underwent the liver transplant for Rs 5 lakh as against the actual cost of Rs 20 lakh

12 Apr 2022

Pune hospital's registration for organ transplants suspended

The registration of Ruby Hall Clinic for organ transplantation has been suspended for six months after health department concluded that the hospital did not scrutinise the documents of the donor and recipient.

Medical Breakthrough

21 Jan 2022

Genetically modified pig kidneys transplanted into a brain-dead person

“The organ shortage is in fact an unmitigated crisis and we've never had a real solution to it,” said Dr. Jayme Locke of the University of Alabama at Birmingham said. Thousands die every year before getting an organ and thousands more never even get added to the list. Animal-to-human transplants, what's called xenotransplantation, have been attempted without success for decades.

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20 Oct 2021

First-ever pig kidney transplant in human patient done in US

Pig kidney was transplanted in human patient in US The patient was brain-dead, whose kidneys were dysfunctional

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10 Dec 2017

Brain dead Jaipur man gifts new life to four others

Rupesh, a 40-year-old, was declared brain dead following a road accident six days ago.

04 Oct 2017

Questions raised as Sasikala’s husband Natarajan undergoes organ transplant

Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala’s husband M Natarajan had a successful liver and kidney transplant on Wednesday at a hospital in Chennai, which has come under scanner over alleged irregularities to facilitate the surgery.

14 Aug 2017

Organ donation: Four things to keep in mind when considering a transplant

Due to lack of awareness, there are myths and fears in people's minds about organ donation.

11 Aug 2017

Breakthrough! Scientists pave way for pig-to-human organ transplant through gene editing

In the study, published in the journal Science, the researchers removed the virus genes from the pig genome using CRISPR-Cas 9 – a gene editing tool – in live animals.

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07 Apr 2017

Green corridor transports donor heart for transplant in just 18 minutes

A donor's heart was successfully transported from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute on Thursday covering a distance of 18 km in 18 minutes.

27 Oct 2016

Mumbai: Hospital worker and brain-dead woman saves 4 lives

The donor woman was admitted to the Jaslok Hospital and was declared brain dead following intracerebral bleeding and brain stem haemorrhage.

27 Jul 2016

East India's first cadaver liver transplant in Kolkata

Family members of a 53-year-old male patient - Samar Chakraborty - who was declared brain dead on Monday assented to the procedure to transplant the liver that is expected to bequeath a new lease of life to a 46-year-old female recipient with liver damage.

28 Jun 2016

Green corridor helps transport liver 210km in 3.30 hours!

It took the ambulance a mere 3.36 hours to transport the liver from Nashik's Rishikesh Hospital to Pune's Sahyadri Hospital.

09 Mar 2016

China records rise in voluntary organ donation

The rate for organ donation per million of population reached 1.2 in 2014, a 60-fold increase from the level of 2010, the commission said.

Green corridors

08 Nov 2015

2 green corridors created in Indore for organ transportation

Probably for first time in the country, two green corridors were created simultaneously here today for separate transport of a liver and a kidney, donated by kin of a 59-year-old man, for their transplantation in two persons.

25 Oct 2015

PM highlights need for organ donations

He said few states have done well "in this regard by cutting short the paper work" while appreciating Tamil Nadu for having done "extremely well" in organ donation.

22 Oct 2015

Kerala plans outcome-registry for clearer organ transplantation

A senior health department official today said the outcome registry would be operational within one month and it is now being run on a trial basis.

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