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10-Month-Old Infant Declared Brain Dead Becomes Kerala's Youngest Organ Donor
A 10-month-old baby girl, who lost her life in a road accident, has become the youngest organ donor in Kerala, offering hope and healing to others even in death, officials said on Friday.
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Kidney Transported On Commercial Flight In A First In Kerala
In a first for the state, a human organ was transported on a commercial airline as part of a transplantation procedure, with a kidney being flown from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, K-SOTTO officials said.
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Pig Organ Transplants May One Day Outperform Human Donors, Says Leading Surgeon
A US clinical trial using gene-edited pig kidneys has begun, with experts saying xenotransplantation could one day offer safer and more effective alternatives to human donor organs.
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Heart For Transplant Flown From Thanjavur To Chennai, Saves 33-Year-Old Man
Taking organ donation and transplantation to a new high, a harvested heart from a brain-dead donor in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur was airlifted by a special chopper and successfully transplanted into a critically ill patient in Chennai.
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New Digital Push: Gujarat Develops Software To Make Organ Transplants More Efficient
The Gujarat government is developing a special registration software for patients awaiting organ donations.
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Putting Pig Organs In People Is OK In The US, But Growing Human Organs In Pigs Is Not - Why Is That?
A decade ago, scientists were chasing a different solution. Instead of editing the genes of pigs to make their organs human-friendly, they tried to grow human organs made entirely of human cells inside pigs. But in 2015 the National Institutes of
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Bengaluru Doctor, Second Main Accused In Andhra Transplant Racket, Arrested
A doctor from Bengaluru, who is named as the second main accused in a shocking organ transplant racket in Andhra Pradesh, surrendered before the court in the state's Annamayya district on Thursday night.
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Tiruchi Hospital Licence Cancelled Over Organ Transplant Racket Claim, Court Objects
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside the Tamil Nadu government's order cancelling the organ transplant licence of Tiruchi's Cethar Hospital.
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Chinese Woman Marries Cancer Patient For Kidney, Finds Lasting Love
It raises complex ethical questions about medical arrangements, organ donation and the nature of marriage, while also offering a rare example of human connection emerging from a dire contract.
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Scientists Create One Kidney That Can Match Any Patient, No Matter The Blood Type
Scientists have developed a universal kidney transplant by converting a donor kidney to blood type O, enabling compatibility with any recipient.
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10-Month-Old Infant Declared Brain Dead Becomes Kerala's Youngest Organ Donor
A 10-month-old baby girl, who lost her life in a road accident, has become the youngest organ donor in Kerala, offering hope and healing to others even in death, officials said on Friday.
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Kidney Transported On Commercial Flight In A First In Kerala
In a first for the state, a human organ was transported on a commercial airline as part of a transplantation procedure, with a kidney being flown from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, K-SOTTO officials said.
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Pig Organ Transplants May One Day Outperform Human Donors, Says Leading Surgeon
A US clinical trial using gene-edited pig kidneys has begun, with experts saying xenotransplantation could one day offer safer and more effective alternatives to human donor organs.
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Heart For Transplant Flown From Thanjavur To Chennai, Saves 33-Year-Old Man
Taking organ donation and transplantation to a new high, a harvested heart from a brain-dead donor in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur was airlifted by a special chopper and successfully transplanted into a critically ill patient in Chennai.
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New Digital Push: Gujarat Develops Software To Make Organ Transplants More Efficient
The Gujarat government is developing a special registration software for patients awaiting organ donations.
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Putting Pig Organs In People Is OK In The US, But Growing Human Organs In Pigs Is Not - Why Is That?
A decade ago, scientists were chasing a different solution. Instead of editing the genes of pigs to make their organs human-friendly, they tried to grow human organs made entirely of human cells inside pigs. But in 2015 the National Institutes of
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Bengaluru Doctor, Second Main Accused In Andhra Transplant Racket, Arrested
A doctor from Bengaluru, who is named as the second main accused in a shocking organ transplant racket in Andhra Pradesh, surrendered before the court in the state's Annamayya district on Thursday night.
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Tiruchi Hospital Licence Cancelled Over Organ Transplant Racket Claim, Court Objects
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside the Tamil Nadu government's order cancelling the organ transplant licence of Tiruchi's Cethar Hospital.
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Chinese Woman Marries Cancer Patient For Kidney, Finds Lasting Love
It raises complex ethical questions about medical arrangements, organ donation and the nature of marriage, while also offering a rare example of human connection emerging from a dire contract.
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Scientists Create One Kidney That Can Match Any Patient, No Matter The Blood Type
Scientists have developed a universal kidney transplant by converting a donor kidney to blood type O, enabling compatibility with any recipient.
