An Indian's heart is now beating for 40-year-old Moulana Mohammed Zubair Ashmi, a Pakistani national, who has undergone a successful heart transplant surgery at the Fortis Malar Hospital. Ashmi was suffering from a condition …
The government would soon come up with a central coordinating agency on organ transplants, the ministry of health Friday said. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) will be set up at Safdarjung Hospital, …
When Esther and Ann Githinji, Kenyan residents, came to Mumbai’s Hinduja Hospital, they had no hope of finding a kidney donor. Both Esther and Ann were suffering from end-stage kidney failure and were in the city to look for …
Five years since the busting of a thriving racket in human kidneys in Gurgaon, where unsuspecting poor people would have their kidneys removed without their consent, a ‘huge disparity’ between demand and supply of organs for …
A CBI court on Friday sentenced two Gurgaon-based doctors to seven years' rigorous imprisonment each for their role in the Gurgaon kidney sale scam that made national headlines in February 2008. The court of Central Bureau of …
There’s hope for patients awaiting a kidney transplant. In just three months this year (2013), the city has seen 16 cadaver kidney transplants. More than last year’s which stood at 43, show figures put out by the Zonal …
The Maharashtra government has taken a step towards making organ donation between close family members much easier. On Friday, the state government had decided to do away with the no-objection certificate (NOC) stipulation. The …
An HIV positive man has managed to get a kidney transplant after seven months and fourteen days of waiting. The man’s mother was willing to donate her kidney, but had to wait for seven months, for approval from the Maharashtra …
Patients grappling with kidney failure are on dialysis support for many years. But with as many as 19 organ transplants in Mumbai in the first month of this year, their ordeal seems to be nearing an end. Many patients have …
A 30-year-old HIV-positive patient from Nigeria got a new lease of life after a kidney transplant at a private hospital here, a doctor said on Sunday. ‘Ben Agande (name changed), was bed-ridden due to kidney ailment. He was …
Brendan Marrocco did something remarkable on Tuesday, something he couldn't have done six weeks ago, or any time since 2009 when he lost both arms and both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq: He used his own hand to brush the hair …
A photo of a woman reportedly holding her own heart in her hands after she had a successful transplant has caught the internet by surprise. The woman, named as Penny by her friend Kelsey on photo sharing website Imgur, is seen …
Seven people were arrested for their alleged involvement in a thriving kidney transplantation racket busted in Karnataka's Ramanagara district recently, police said Saturday. ‘The seven accused - arrested under various sections …
On November 24 a team of 30 doctors at Medanta Hospital in Delhi performed a successful intestinal transplant. It might not be India’s first though as a similar procedure was carried out at Sir Gangaram Hospital earlier this …
