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
Pune: Lata Nelkhade's eyes fill with tears of gratitude. This kidney patient had lost all hope but she now thanks God that the court has granted her son Akash, a murder convict, parole so that he could donate her a kidney. All Lata Nelkhade can say is “May God give every mother a son like him.” Akash had been serving a life term in Yerawada jail for the past one-and-half...
12:22 PM, Oct 23, 2010
kidney transplant in India still remains at an all-time low. ...
09:58 AM, Mar 11, 2010
The donation program has been organised ahead of Christmas. ...
04:12 PM, Dec 16, 2009
It's safe to say an employee-boss bond goes well beyond the workplace. ...
03:35 PM, Nov 12, 2009
Report says clothing size is a useful gauge to predict cancer risk in studies. ...
01:53 PM, Oct 07, 2009
Amar Singh was recuperating in Singapore for almost two months. ...
12:12 AM, Sep 21, 2009
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