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Study finds Hepatitis C-positive livers safe for transplantation, patients
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Ohio [USA], June 23 (ANI): Patients who received a transplanted liver infected with hepatitis C and were later treated for the infection performed as well in recovery as transplant patients who received an organ free of infection, says a new study.
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Breastfeeding lowers risk of ovarian cancer: Study
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Montreal [Canada], June 20 (ANI): Better management of patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) can be enabled with the new test developed by the researchers of CHU Sainte-Justine in Montreal.
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40 year old Mukesh gets a new life from Deceased Donor Liver Transplantati
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 3 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A new life unfolds for Mukesh Kumar Shaw, a 40 year old resident of Nivedita Park Road, Behala through a Cadaveric Liver Transplant done on January 13 at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata.
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Radical treatment of oral infection is not necessary before stem cell tran
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): A recent scientific study suggests that contrary to the conventional belief, oral infection has no association with the risk of patients that people developing serious infectious diseases within six months of undergoing stem cell transplantation.
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AIIMS plans to use drones for cornea tissue transportation
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 4 (ANI): With only 2 per cent of eye banks active in matters related to cornea donation across the country, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) RP Eye Centre, is planning to use drones to transport cornea tissues to the transplantation centres, said Dr
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Selma Blair struggles with insomnia amid MS battle
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 01 (ANI): American actor Selma Blair is feeling "afraid" as she struggles with insomnia amid her battle with multiple sclerosis.
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Doctors at Delhi hospital arrange around Rs 11 lakh for minor's liver tran
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): Doctors at Max Hospital, Saket arranged around Rs 11 lakh for a seven-year-old boy's pediatric liver transplantation surgery when his parents expressed their inability to pay the entire amount for the treatment.
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3 arrested in international kidney transplantation racket
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Cybercrime slueths of Rachakonda in Telangana have arrested three people for allegedly running an international kidney transplantation racket.
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Soldier gets heart of brain-dead jawan from Siachen
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): A 30-year-old soldier of the Indian Army got a new lease of life at Army's Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital after he was transplanted with another heart, donated by a 29-year-old soldier who was declared brain dead. For the transplantation, the heart was
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This index may overestimate transplant benefits in COPD patients
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Mar. 07 (ANI): A new finding suggests that an index may overestimate transplant benefits in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients.
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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Causes and symptoms
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 2 (ANI): Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, is a type of lung disease that results in the scarring, or fibrosis, of the lungs for an unknown reason. Over time, the scarring progresses and compromises the elasticity of lungs.
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Five successful pancreas transplantations performed at BGS Gleneagles Glob
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 31 (ANI): BGS Gleneagles Global Hospital, a part of Parkway Pantai, has recently achieved the rare feat of completing its fifth successful pancreas transplantation in Karnataka.
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