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Opioid Epidemic Boosts Number of Organs Available for Transplant

Opioid Epidemic Boosts Number of Organs Available for Transplant

Organs from drug-overdose deaths are suitable for transplantation, research shows. More than 10-fold increase in the proportion of donors who died from drug intoxication between the years 2...

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Inclusion of Organ Donor Option in Driving Licence Application Form Welcomed

Inclusion of Organ Donor Option in Driving Licence Application Form Welcomed

A social group has welcomed the government’s move to include a column in the driving licence form for applicants to pledge his/her organs for donation, which can help in easy process, create...

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World’s First Total Penis and Scrotum Transplant by Johns Hopkins Surgery Team

World’s First Total Penis and Scrotum Transplant by Johns Hopkins Surgery Team

A successful total penis and scrotum transplant, the first of its kind in the world, was performed by a Johns Hopkins’ reconstructive surgery team. The team that performed the first bilatera...

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Transplanted Livers can Help Lower Risk of Organ Rejection

Transplanted Livers can Help Lower Risk of Organ Rejection

Transplanted livers play an active role in regulating the host's immune system, and also helps lower the risk of organ rejection, reveals a new study published in Kidney International. ...

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Cancer Patients Waiting for a Liver Transplant in the US, Less Likely to Get One

Cancer Patients Waiting for a Liver Transplant in the US, Less Likely to Get One

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on the liver transplant list in the USA were more than 50% less likely to receive a transplant in 2014-2016 than they were in 2005-2007, accordin...

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Goa Health Ministry Ordered Probe After The State's First Organ Transplant Via Green Corridor

Goa Health Ministry Ordered Probe After The State's First Organ Transplant Via Green Corridor

A probe by the Goan Health Ministry was ordered after the state's first organ harvesting and transplantation. The sixty year old Goan donor's kidneys and liver were transported to Mumbai and...

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Heart Transplant Gives 56-year-old a New Lease of Life

Heart Transplant Gives 56-year-old a New Lease of Life

A heart transplant conducted within three hours of harvesting the heart from a donor in Jaipur helped a 56-year-old patient get a new lease of life. "The patient is recovering well aft...

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Trained Navigators Help Increase Transplant Waitlist for Kidney Failure Patients

Trained Navigators Help Increase Transplant Waitlist for Kidney Failure Patients

Disadvantaged patients with kidney failure who received guidance from a trained navigator with a degree in social work were more likely to be eventually put on the transplant waiting list th...

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Most Kidney Donors are Women - Donations Declined Among Men

Most Kidney Donors are Women - Donations Declined Among Men

Between 2005 and 2015, the unadjusted rate of living kidney donation in the United States was 30.1 and 19.3 per million populations in women and men, respectively. After adjusting for...

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Mother's Liver Donation Saves Child's Life

Mother's Liver Donation Saves Child's Life

Mother's donated part of the liver gives new life to her one-and-half-year-old daughter from who was suffering from a rare inherited liver disorder. Fatima was suffering from congenita...

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Opt-Out System for Organ Donation – England at a Crossroad

Opt-Out System for Organ Donation – England at a Crossroad

England plans to change their organ donation law to an ‘opt-out’ system. This would make everyone in the country a donor unless they state an objection. This proposed change was done by the ...

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Insight into the Neurobiology of Dying

Insight into the Neurobiology of Dying

A new study published in Annals of Neurology provides insight into the neurobiology of dying. The research team performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate - Comfo...

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New Finding Could Minimize Transplant Risks

New Finding Could Minimize Transplant Risks

Researchers at FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) have succeeded in deciphering what causes the instances life-threatening inflammation of the intestines in leukemia pat...

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Split Liver Transplantation in Children can Save More Lives

Split Liver Transplantation in Children can Save More Lives

Alternatives to whole liver transplants for children can increase organ supply, better use of those organs and gives a chance to save more lives. In a new Johns Hopkins study of pati...

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First Combined Liver-Kidney Transplant Performed at PGIMER

First Combined Liver-Kidney Transplant Performed at PGIMER

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, has performed its first simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation on February 3, 2018. The co...

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