Report of the joint committee to study the impact of sea level rise on the islands and frame policy and measures to protect these islands dated October 10, 2023. The report was in compliance with the National Green Tribunal order, July 11, 2023. The report recommended undertaking field-based topographic surveys …
through advances in medicine have made some kinds of organ transplant possible, the biggest hurdle for transplanting organs for the hundreds of thousands of needy patients is the lack of donors. Scientists have experimented with several materials to develop artificial organs that are accepted by the body's immune system. But …
the world's first double-hand transplant has proved a success with a 33-year-old patient, Denis Chatelier, able to move the fingertips of both hands. Twenty-five days after the operation, Chatelier, from western France, raised both plaster-encased hands and said he was "very, very happy'. Still confined to a wheelchair, Chatelier said: …
despite the presence of between 100,000-150,000 hair on the scalp, a bald pate remains a nightmare for virtually every person. Not surprisingly, extensive research is being done to understand the complex process of the growth and regeneration of adult hair. Transplanting whole hair follicles from one part of the head …
in one of the worst instances of racism in recent times, a hospital in uk, accepted a kidney from a donor who put a condition that it would not be transplanted on a "coloured' person. The incident occurred at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, where the donor died earlier …
Tissue engineering may open the way for bladder replacement in patients who have lost their own bladder due to some disease. In a scientific breakthrough, tissue engineers have reconstructed the urinary bladder of a dog. This was done by extracting cells from both the outside and the inside of the …
japanese researchers are looking towards tiny, long-living animals for some tips on how to make organ transplants work more successfully. Inspired by these ancient life forms, they have even come up with a new technique to store organs for transplants later, they claim. The team, which successfully revived a rat's …
On November 5, 1998, a major breakthrough in organ transplant was achieved by two independent teams of scientists from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the John Hopkin's University School of Medicine in USA. From human embryos and foetuses, they cultured human embryonic stem cells which had the capacity …
The seven month-old organ donation law, enacted to prevent commercial dealing in human organs and protect the rights of donors and transplant patients, has come in for a lot of criticism. The law may need an overhaul to protect the rights of unconscious patients after "unforeseen difficulties", according to a …
XENOTRANSPLANTATION, the practice of transplanting animal organs in human patients, has been challenged by British human rights group. The report, co-authored by the British Union for Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and Compassion in World Farming (CWF), challenging the usefulness and safety of the practice, says that there was little evidence …
THE world's first hand transplant has been carried out by an international team of doctors at a French hospital. The right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor were attached to 48-year-old Australian Glint Hallam, whose hand was amputated in 1989 after an accident. Doctors attached "all the arteries, veins, …
a good heart is hard to find. Thousands in-line for heart transplants discover this the hard way each year. Over 150,000 potential patients queue up for transplants and only 4000 very lucky ones actually get into the operating theatre and walk out with a new heart and a new lease …
It's a man's life they say. Join up and see a man's world, for even when it comes to kidney transplants men have the cake and eat it too. Are the new technologies that are coming up anti-women or is it a question of male behaviour? This strange pattern of …
studies in the us show that special proteins can prevent rejection of transplanted organs in monkeys without the need of immune suppressant drugs. If the same technique applies to human, patients would not have to take long-term drugs to avoid rejection of the foreign tissue. A brief course of protein …
scientists in Scotland have created a lamb that has a human gene in every cell of its body. Now animals with human genes could be used, in theory, to produce hormones or other biological products for treating human diseases, say cloning experts. By inserting human genetic diseases in the animals, …
researchers at New York's Harvard University have successfully grown replacement skin, bladders and other body tissue in a technique that could open new doors to transplant surgery and treatment of birth defects in humans. The scientists say they have developed a way to harvest cells from specific parts of an …
the Organ Retrieval and Banking Organisation ( orbo ), the first of its kind in India, has been launched at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( aiims ). A 24-hour emergency national facility, the organisation will function under the Cardio-Thoracic Centre of the aiims . It will encourage …
transplantation of organs from humans has become a common medical procedure. But there are some serious issues involved in the practice. Some of these are primarily ethical, concerning the procedures in transplanting organs between humans. The numbers of patients in urgent need of organ transplants is constantly rising. Paucity of …
It is time to do away with myths. Hundreds of Pakistanis who have had kidney transplants are flocking to a playground during weekends to deliver a message to their countrypeople donate your organs to save lives. The event, first of its kind in the country, marked the start of a …
IF PASSED, a new bill in Japan that defines brain death as legal death, will enable doctors to remove organs from people who are brainclead but are still on life support machines. In Japan, a person is pronounced officially dead only if his heart stops beating. It is impossible to …
