Masterminds of kidney stealing racket, Amit Kumar and Upender Kumar, have been sentenced by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Panchkula to undergo seven years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 60 lakh each. ...
08:41 PM, Mar 22, 2013
On World Kidney Day, Dr Sanjay K Agarwal, the head of the department of Nephrology at AIIMS joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the subject. ...
07:00 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Barcelona marksman spent Monday night in hospital before being sent home, only to return due to intense pain on Thursday for further medical care. ...
05:29 PM, Feb 15, 2013
In a four-day operation in Bangalore, police have busted a kidney racket and have arrested three of its seven members. "This racket has been working for the last three to four years in Bangalore. It also operates in Mysore where corporate hospitals are there. Names of few hospitals have come up but their role is yet to be established. We'll find that in the course of investigation," said SP Ramanagram...
01:11 PM, Jan 06, 2013
A police team on January 5 arrested seven persons for running a kidney transplantation racket, allegedly involving government officials and major hospitals in the city. Among those arrested is Ranjan, a revenue inspector, CD Shrikanth, a contract labourer in Food and Civil Supplies Office located at Magadi and five others including an agent, police said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Dr Joseph E Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Monday, hospital spokesman Tom Langford said. ...
11:55 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Karimnagar: Six poor women from the district have approached the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission seeking its permission to sell their kidneys to raise "blood money" for the release of their husbands lodged in a Dubai jail. The women said in the petition that they be allowed to sell their kidneys as they lack the resources to fund release of their husbands. Syed Kareem, S Ravi, S Mallesham, S...
10:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Beijing: The sensational case of a teenager selling one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and iPad came up for hearing at a court in central China where nine people, including a surgeon are on trial facing charges of intentional injury and illegal organ trade. Judges at the People's Court in Beihu District of Chenzhou in Hunan province heard how 18-year-old Wang Shangkun, who sold his kidney to buy...
01:36 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: On Raksha Bandhan day, it is traditionally the brothers who shower presents on their sisters but 34-year-old Asha chose to give a priceless gift to her sibling who was battling for his life, one of her kidneys. 42-year-old Sriniwas Thakur, a resident of Faridabad, was suffering from high blood pressure for a long time and was admitted to Asian Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Doctors diagnosed...
03:50 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Bangalore: Thirty-five-year-old Manjunath breathed his last on a hospital bed due to kidney failure. The reason he could not be saved was that he did not find a suitable donor. According to city-based doctors over 80 percent people suffering from kidney failure die as there is an acute shortage of kidney donors. Over three lakh people in India suffer from renal failure. However, only 3,500 transplantations take place every year,...
11:37 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Tokyo: Heart, liver and kidneys of a brain dead child donor under six years of age were successfully transplanted at three hospitals in Japan early Saturday. Surgeons at Osaka University Hospital successfully transplanted on Friday the heart to a girl under age 10, the hospital said, making her the youngest person to receive a heart transplant in Japan. At the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo, the...
02:06 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Beijing: Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to earn money to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The official Xinhua News Agency says prosecutors in the city of Chenzhou charged the suspects with intentional injury for organizing the removal and transplant of a kidney from a 17-year-old high school student surnamed Wang. Xinhua said...
11:39 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Seattle: Here's another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney. Between the kid photos and reminiscences about high school, more and more pleas for help from people with failing kidneys are popping up. Facebook and other social media sites are quickly becoming a go-to place to find a generous person with a kidney to spare, according to the people...
06:51 PM, Jan 02, 2012
An American woman, who has been waiting for a kidney transplant for years, will now get a new kidney as a surprise from her daughter. Sarah Nesbit lost her kidney function because of a complicated pregnancy. ...
01:35 PM, Nov 28, 2011
London: A faulty gene is linked to more than a third of all kidney cancers. The finding will help researchers understand how the cancer develops and may in the future lead to new treatments and earlier diagnosis. Everyone is born with a gene called PBRM1, but in some people it gets damaged during their lifetime, which can lead to cancer, the journal Nature reports. A mutated PBRM1 was found in...
03:38 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Washington: The kidneys play a vital role in maintaining blood pressure, says a new study. The organ is made up of roughly a million basic working units called nephrons, which remove waste products from the blood, recycle some substances and eliminate what is left as urine. The end segment of nephrons, called the distal nephron, helps set blood pressure by controlling the amount of sodium in our blood, according to...
03:44 PM, Jan 16, 2011
Maine: Ronald Lee Herrick, who donated a kidney to his dying twin brother 56 years ago in what's recognized as the world's first successful organ transplant, has died of complications following heart surgery. He was 79. Herrick died Monday at the Augusta Rehabilitation Center in Augusta, said his wife, Cynthia. He had been in deteriorating health since his October surgery, she said. Herrick gave a kidney to his twin brother,...
03:59 PM, Dec 30, 2010
New Delhi: A US based Indian-origin researcher has created the world's first artificial implantable kidney. If this passes human trials, it could eliminate the need for kidney dialysis and even a transplant. The world's first artificial kidney that can mimic almost all vital kindey functions has been created. Indian origin researcher who is making the headlines - Shuvo Roy and his team at the University of California in the US...
09:00 AM, Dec 05, 2010
Kanpur: The parents of an ill teenager in Kanpur have asked a local court to permit them to sell their kidneys so that they can raise the money needed for his treatment. Anuj Behl, 14, has aplastic anemia - a disorder in which the body does not produce new blood cells. He needs a bone marrow transplant - that and other medical attention that he needs could cost up to...
08:51 PM, Nov 11, 2010
