the world's first double-hand transplant has proved a success with a 33-year-old patient, Denis Chatelier, able to move the fingertips of both hands. Twenty-five days after the operation,

A UK kidney donor sets only whites condition

Tissue engineering may open the way for bladder replacement in patients who have lost their own bladder due to some disease. In a scientific breakthrough, tissue engineers have reconstructed the

If everything goes right, it would be possible to store vital organs to be used for transplants much later

On November 5, 1998, a major breakthrough in organ transplant was achieved by two independent teams of scientists from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the John Hopkin's University School

The seven month-old organ donation law, enacted to prevent commercial dealing in human organs and protect the rights of donors and transplant patients, has come in for a lot of criticism. The law may

XENOTRANSPLANTATION, the practice of transplanting animal organs in human patients, has been challenged by British human rights group. The report, co-authored by the British Union for Abolition

In a major scientific breakthrough, scientists conduct the world's first hand transplant

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart transplant patients

When it comes to recieving hearts and kidneys, men do better than women. Women do better when it comes to donating organs

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