CHENNAI: Apollo Transplant Institutes have become the busiest solid organ transplant programmes in the world, having conducted 929 liver, kidney and heart transplants during 2011. Addressing the media on this occasion, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, Our aim at the Apollo Transplant Institutes is to be the best centre for transplantation in the world. Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Senior Consultant,...
07:45 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Hollis: A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumour. It's believed to be the first-ever transplant of an esophagus and the largest number of organs transplanted at one time in New England. Spunky and bright-eyed...
10:34 AM, Feb 07, 2012
London: Scientists have discovered a way to transform ordinary tissue into beating heart muscle cells, a finding they say could soon pave the way for new therapeutic approaches for making a damaged heart to repair itself. Using a zebrafish system, a team from Fudan University in China developed a small and robust molecule that can transform stem cells into beating heart muscle cells. The scientists, who detailed their work in...
03:35 PM, Dec 26, 2011
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
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
Lakewood, Ohio: The nation's first face transplant patient has said a donor saved her from a life of eating and breathing through a tube, but until this weekend she knew her only as a woman who died in 2008. Two years after Anna Kasper's face was merged with the remnants of Connie Culp's, Kasper's family decided to reveal she was the donor, so that others can know the generous woman...
11:29 AM, Dec 21, 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
More than two lakh Indians require organ transplants every year but only ten percent manage to get them. ...
12:44 PM, Dec 02, 2010
Sanjay Kandasamy was the first child to have a successful living-related liver transplant in India. ...
12:04 PM, Nov 30, 2010
Mumbai: Model cum Bollywood actress Lisa Ray is on a global mission these days. After having battled cancer through stem cell transplantation, the actress has become the global advisor for the same. Fourteen months of battling multiple Myeloma has not killed her indomitable spirit. She's cured and jokingly refers to herself as a "cancer graduate". She sports the cancer haircut and the bangle, which she is wearing, says a lot...
09:52 AM, Oct 24, 2010
New Delhi: Eight-month-old Akshu's parents had almost lost hope for their daughter, who had suffered liver failure since birth. She was admitted to the hospital after she got jaundice and intestinal bleeding. Doctors at Delhi's Army Hospital performed a liver transplant that saved her life, but there were complications. Brigadier Anupam Saha, Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt, said: “A baby has only 500 ml blood and even if 20 ml...
12:57 PM, Oct 14, 2010
New Delhi: Till just a month ago, Baby Tavish was at risk of bleeding to death at the slightest injury. He suffered from what's called Factor 7 deficiency, a rare genetic disorder that affects one in 5 lakh children, who are missing a key liver enzyme. Dr Soin: “For clotting, Factor 7 is essential, so if you and I get hurt we don’t bleed away to death because there is...
11:25 AM, Oct 12, 2010
Despite the political heat between India and Pakistan, a Pakistani kid has been saved by Indian doctors. ...
10:23 AM, May 26, 2010
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