Getting right donor at right time remains a far cry here as superstitions, non-declaration of brain-dead patients make 1000s die for want of donors

Bangalore: Motorists who wish to donate their organs after they die can now carry a sticker in their driving licence, affirming their pledge, thus making it easy to harvest organs in case of fatal

Even as the Health Ministry has introduced a series of amendments to the organ transplant Act to give a boost to the national programme, the budget for the National Organ Transplantation Programme

Chandigarh: In order to expand the scope of organ transplant and enable more patients to benefit from such procedures, all major military hospitals are being interlinked with the Armed Forces Organ

In a first, doctors in Sweden have transplanted into the body of 10-year-old girl a vein grown in the laboratory from her own stem cells.

Donate an organ, give someone a new life – Preeti” She joined AIIMS as a young data entry operator, and around the age of 26, she became one of the first and youngest recipient of a donated heart i

The past quarter century has witnessed rapid advancement in the field of transplantation medicine. Various methods have been used which facilitate organ preservation, decrease organ rejection, improve organ matching, and, in general, augment the success rates of transplantation.

Chicago: It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days — even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants.

The much awaited heart transplant programme at the region’s tertiary care institute, PGIMER, has moved a step closer to reality with the head of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CTVS) departmen

To give a boost to the organ donation programme in (PGIMER), authorities are thinking of setting up a network for organ sharing with public sector institutes.

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