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Organs harvested at Tiruchi govt. hospital help six patients
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Organs harvested at Tiruchi govt. hospital help six patients

The Hindu  

Organs harvested by a team of surgeons from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital in Tiruchi from a brain-dead patient helped six persons on Saturday. According to an official statement, a 28-year-old man from Usilampatti in Madurai district was admitted to the hospital’s emergency department on January 9 morning with a grievous head injury. As per the norms of the Transplant …

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Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant
3 months, 1 week ago

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

India Today  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. : The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. “I think it’s worth the shot.” Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 – using pig kidneys or hearts to try to save human …

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Brain dead Chandigarh man's organs give new lease of life to five patients
1 year, 2 months ago

Brain dead Chandigarh man's organs give new lease of life to five patients

India Today  

The organs of a brain-dead 23-year-old man, which were donated to Chandigarh's PGIMER, provided a new lease of life to five patients. He was declared brain dead by doctors on January 12, following which Rajesh's family gave consent to donate his organs. Expressing his gratitude to Rajesh's parents for their noble gesture, Professor Vivek Lal, director of Chandigarh's PGIMER said, …

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Life after death: 327 life-saving procedures done in Telangana through Organ transplants
1 year, 8 months ago

Life after death: 327 life-saving procedures done in Telangana through Organ transplants

The Hindu  

Anil was on the list of recipients for organ transplant in Hyderabad as his kidneys had failed. But in a nation of 130 crore people, the organ donation rate is only 0.25 per million which means that not more than 2,000-2,500 organs are available for transplant from deceased donors. As per the data maintained by the National Organ and Tissue …

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For PGI patients needing organs, the wait is long and painful
1 year, 11 months ago

For PGI patients needing organs, the wait is long and painful

Hindustan Times  

For Manwinder Pal Singh, 41-year-old patient from Fatehgarh Sahib, the wait for a kidney transplant has felt like a lifetime. PGI serves as the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation for the northern region, including Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and other neighbouring areas. However, patients like me face immense struggle awaiting an organ, with many also losing their lives before …

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When we’ll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them
2 years, 9 months ago

When we’ll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. The cause of this discrepancy is “a combination of people who undergo catastrophic health events, but their organs aren’t high enough quality to donate, or they’re not on the organ donor list to begin with, and the fact that it’s actually very difficult to find a good match” so the patient’s body …

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Chinese surgeons remove organs of living patients under state order
2 years, 11 months ago

Chinese surgeons remove organs of living patients under state order

Op India  

According to a recent study by the Australian National University, Chinese surgeons, working at state-run civilian and military hospitals, have been cutting out prisoners’ hearts and lungs while they’re still alive. Media reports suggest that Australian National University researchers combed through thousands of Chinese medical papers and concluded that surgeons were killing prisoners during surgery including some “prisoners of conscience” …

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SC seeks details from doctor alleging hospitals declare patients brain dead in Kerala to harvest organs
5 years, 8 months ago

SC seeks details from doctor alleging hospitals declare patients brain dead in Kerala to harvest organs

India TV News  

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a doctor to bring on record specific instances showing that patients were prematurely declared brain dead by private hospitals in Kerala to harvest their organs as has been alleged in his petition. The apex court said it can examine the allegations if some evidence is brought on record by naming certain hospitals which are purportedly …

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New liver transplant rules begin amid fight over fairness
5 years, 10 months ago

New liver transplant rules begin amid fight over fairness

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Wilnelia Cruz-Ulloa spent the last months of her life in a New York City hospital, waiting for a donated liver that never came. “Whoever’s sickest should have the greatest opportunity” for an organ, said Dr. Sander Florman, a transplant surgeon at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center who helped care for Cruz-Ulloa and pushed for the change. At …

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The 3D printed HEART: Scientists could soon build replacement organs using a patient's own cells
10 years, 11 months ago

The 3D printed HEART: Scientists could soon build replacement organs using a patient's own cells

Daily Mail  

The 3D printed HEART: Scientists could soon build replacement organs using a patient's own cells Scientists from the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, are able to print parts of hearts including blood vessels They think it will be possible to print an entire heart in three to five years' time and for it to be tested in humans in …

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Brain-dead patient’s organs donated in Vijayawada
11 years, 2 months ago

Brain-dead patient’s organs donated in Vijayawada

The Hindu  

City-based Brindavan Colony resident Mulakala Padmavathi, 39, went into coma after she suffered a sever brain haemorrhage on January 16. Consulting Nephrologists N. Ammanna, K. Prasanth Kumar and G. Srinivasa Rao and Indian Medical Association Vijayawada chapter president Indla Ramasubba Reddy gathered to show their appreciation to the family of an organ donor. Another objective of the function was to …

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Pioneering scientists grow rat's kidney in lab - and hope it will lead to breakthrough for human organ transplants
11 years, 11 months ago

Pioneering scientists grow rat's kidney in lab - and hope it will lead to breakthrough for human organ transplants

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A synthetic kidney made from a patient’s own skin cells might …

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Brain-dead declaration to be made mandatory in Hyderabad
12 years, 3 months ago

Brain-dead declaration to be made mandatory in Hyderabad

The Hindu  

To promote the cadaver transplantation programme ‘Jeevandan’, the health authorities are planning to make brain-dead declarations mandatory in all Government teaching hospitals in Hyderabad. Talks were also held with the Chief Transplant Coordinator of the widely successful Tamil Nadu Cadaver Transplantation programme, officials said. At present, the Government teaching hospitals, including Gandhi, Osmania General Hospitals and Nizam’s Institute of Medical …

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