Organ Donation News  

Aria MacDonald has a decent chance of survival after receiving a valuable gift of organs from an unknown child. The three-year-old was born with a rare condition, which results in difficulty...  Read more

Blood plasma, when turned into a gel-like substance, can help neutralize organ rejection in kidney transplant. British doctors have successfully used the cryofiltration system to transplant ...  Read more

Medical education minister Ramachandra Gowda has said that the Karnataka government will take measures to amend the Transplant Act to encourage organ donation.

"We want to be on par...  Read more

A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) says that measuring certain types of immune cells may predict the high risk of skin ca...  Read more

On Republic Day, the nation usually honours the family members of the armed forces personnel who laid down their lives while defending the country. The family of Sri. Govardhan Naidu is yet ...  Read more

A group of transgenders in Tamil Nadu on Monday pledged to donate their eyes as a part of the Transgender Day celebrations in the state.

Every year, transgenders he...  Read more

Communist stalwart Jyoti Basu’s pledge to serve humanity continues to be fulfilled even after his death. His eyes which he pledged for donation were harvested by a team of specialists from S...  Read more

The Cornea Donor Study (CDS) Investigator Group has identified a new predictor of cornea transplant success.

New analysis of data from the 2008 Specular Microscopy Ancillary Study...  Read more

Staff at the Papworth Hospital in Cambridge have carried out two heart lung transplants on consecutive days in January in what is an important milestone for just three such procedures were p...  Read more

Abnormally high or low blood calcium levels could put non-dialysis kidney disease patients at increased risk of premature death, according to a new study.

The findings underline ...  Read more