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Income tax refunds helps increase "Awareness Fund Coffer"
Pennsylvania has yet another new organ donation awareness project. Governor Tom Ridge talking about the urgent need for organ donation awareness said, “One person dies every other day, in, our...
Read MoreUrology Conference at Bhubaneswar discusses Cadaver Transplantation Issues
A similar symposium on Cadaver Renal Transplants was organised earlier in the month of January at the Annual conference of The Urological Society of India at Bhubaneswar. The following doctors partic...
Read More“Journal Watch” Section
The “Indian Transplant Newsletter” has added a “Journal Watch” section with this issue and this will become a regular feature of the Newsletter. This section will have summari...
Read MoreAsking for Organs
The success of cadaver transplant programmes depends to a great extent on the person asking for organs from relatives and his or her approach to the situation. In a “Brain Death” situatio...
Read MoreCadaver Transplant Activity
Cadaver Transplant Activity In Punjab & Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Uttar Pradesh(upto March 1999) Place Kidney Heart ...
Read MoreIsot meet at Calcutta
Dr. Anant Kumar, Secretary, ISOT The 11 th ISOT meeting was held in Calcutta from 29 th to 31 st Jan. 1999. It was well attended by 150 delegates and Dr. Piyush N. Joshi was the guest ...
Read MoreKidney Transplants - A perfect match & more
Teresa Fleming, of Manchester Township, Pennsylvania, had a Kidney transplant in 1984 and went on dialysis after the graft failed eight years later. She had no idea that she was going to find her ma...
Read MoreKidneys offered from suicide victim
KIDNEYS OFFERED FROM SUICIDE VICTIM Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired Michigan pathologist, who believes in assisted suicide helped a 45- year-old quadriplegic commit suicide in June 1998. He then...
Read MoreLack of Organ donations in Japan
LACK OF ORGAN DONATIONS IN JAPAN In June 1997, Japan passed a new law accepting the concept of brain death and permitting organ donations from persons who have been declared brain dead. Unfortun...
Read MoreLive related Liver Transplants - A beginning made in India
REBECCA THOMAS, FORTE, BANGALORE When four of the seven listed pediatric patients waiting for liver transplant died at St. John’s Bangalore, it became obvious that for children different s...
Read MoreMilestones
First Successful Hand transplant Performed in France in September 1998. (see report Journal watch) First Successful Larynx Transplant Performed in Cleveland Clinic, U.S.A. in January 1998. (see re...
Read MorePatient support group launched in Bombay
After a successful launch of patient support group for Kidney Transplant and failure patients at Chennai a similar support group was launched by MOHAN Foundation at Bombay on 18 th April...
Read MoreShe gave her all..
Loretta Andrews – wife, mother, friend of the homeless and of children in need. So many descriptions but the one that fitted her perfectly is the one that many of us only aspire to be a fine hu...
Read MoreSnippets
ORGAN STORAGE Organ preservation is the key to successful organ transplants today. The ancient Egyptians, in a way, kick started the concept of organ storage. The word Mummies and Egypt are syn...
Read MoreThe Bombay Experience with Cadaver Transplant- Past and Present
One of the first people who wrote to us after the very first issue of the Indian Transplant Newsletter was Padma Shri D. K. Karanjavala, M.S, FRCS (Eng) from Bombay. Many of us tend to think of cadav...
Read MoreTransplant baby becomes heart donor
A ten-month-old boy, Joey Bullock of Lancaster, Texas, who received a liver and bowel transplant become a heart donor after he died in mid November of an unrelated cause. He was recovering from his ...
Read Morexenotransplanantation idea gaining support
Xenotransplantation is slowly getting the thumps up from not only physicians, surgeons and transplant recipients but also the American public. In a poll conducted by the National Kidney Foundation of...
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