There’s a severe kidney shortage. “The kidney shortage is a solvable problem.” Perlman is executive director of Waitlist Zero, a coalition supporting newly proposed federal legislation that would create a 10-year pilot program called the End Kidney Deaths Act. Only 300 to 400 living donor kidneys come from “altruistic donors,” people who give one of their kidneys to someone they …
Blacksburg: Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. “These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allow those first audacious experiments. …
HYDERABAD: Ahead of World Kidney Day on March 9, nephrologists in the city said that nearly 2 lakh patients die every year in the country due to a lack of awareness of kidney disease. They said that it is the responsibility of governments as well as physicians to provide awareness, support, and reassurance to those people who are suffering from …
Five months after a woman in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur lost both her kidneys, her husband has reportedly abandoned her at a critical time when she requires extensive care. The victim – identified as Sunita Devi – lost both her kidneys in September 2022 when people posing as doctors stole her kidneys at Shubhkant Clinic, an unauthorised nursing home in Bariyarpur area …