Transplant Organ Donation News

Religious leaders joined hands in India to dismiss the myth that people will be born blind in their next birth if they donate their eyes when they die.

With the country facing a huge shortage

In a pioneering initiative and first of its kind in Central Government Health Scheme(CGHS), Minister of Health and Family Welfare  Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate a standalone haemodialysis c

In a first for Hong Kong, a hospital in the city has completed the region's first-ever combined heart and liver transplant in a 20-hour operation involving almost 70 medical staff.

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A type of killer white blood cell, scientists reveal, could make organ rejection by the body history.

The cells suppress the immune response in the livers of mice, without affecting t

A team of Rutgers-Camden biologists is working to engineer cold tolerant fruit flies and ultimately human cells within the next three years.

The research breakthrough can be credited to Da

Geographic variation has been identified as a key factor accounting for disparities in access to liver transplantation among racial and ethnic groups by researchers at the University of Michigan and A

A new study from Cambridge University has shown that kidneys from donors who died from heart-related ailments are suitable for donation.

The study of over 9,000 patients revealed that cardiac

In a tragic incident, a 34-year old American died in a Colorado hospital just four days after donating a part of his liver to his elder brother who was suffering from an incurable liver disease.
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A Spanish surgeon has been given the green light to carry out the world's first full leg transplant.

Surgeon Pedro Cavadas will be performing the transplant in full view of the public.

Organ Donor Awareness Week - August 8^th – 14^th

Organ donation, undoubtedly the greatest form of human service, is the opportunity to breathe life into another by d