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 …
The Bhopal Jan Seva Samiti is going to organise free artificial organ transplantation camp. Main member of the committee Rameshwar Sharma, Goviind Goyal informed in joint press conference that artificial organ transplantation will be done in place of severed organ and the person will be made independent and free from …
Our Bureau NEW DELHI SWISS drugmaker Roche lost the patent in India for its anti-viral drug, Valcyte, widely used by AIDS patients, after the patent office concluded it did not contain the necessary innovation to qualify for marketing exclusivity, said lawyers involved in the case. The ruling would help local …
Jammu, April 30 If the state formulates a legislation to allow legal donation as well as transplantation of human organs, kidney transplantation can be done in the state on cheaper prices. Medical experts told The Tribune that not all could afford transplantation out of the state, but with proper laws, …
New Delhi: With an aim to create awareness about organ donation, Mohan (Multiple Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation, a Hyderabad-based NGO, is soon going to set up a network for cadaver organ donation in the capital. All the transplant centres and hospitals in Delhi will be linked through this network …
New Delhi: For patients with severely dysfunctional organs, transplant becomes the last option but finding a compatible donor to replace the organ is an uphill task. However, such patients won
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The government on Friday introduced in the Lok Sabha the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Bill, 2009. It seeks to allow swapping of organs and including grandparents and grandchildren in the list of donors. The Bill, tabled by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam …
Breakthrough In Rabbits Helps Them Mate; May Help Grow Complex Body Parts Washington: Researchers have engineered artificial penises in rabbits, using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits. The work takes scientists closer to making other complex solid organs such as livers using …
Government of India is planning to have Human Organ Banks in each state. This project is going to bring a revolution in medical surgery in our country and also help lakhs of patients needing renal transplantation or transplantation of other vital human organs at an appreciably low and affordable costs. …
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
MUKESH RANJAN Sept. 16: The government is likely to approve on Thursday the amendment proposals of the health ministry in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994, which will enhance jail term for wrongdoers from present five years to 10 years, along with a monetary fine of Rs 5 lakhs …
Four years after a committee set up on the directions of the Delhi High Court submitted its report on suggesting a review of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, the proposed amendments will come up before the Union Cabinet for approval on Thursday. The amendments will clear the way …
LUCKNOW: Epidemiological studies show that 1-2% of the total Indian population is a carrier of Hepatitis B. This makes a large chunk of these carriers vulnerable to cirrhosis and cancers of liver. Transplant is perhaps the only way to save these lives. These facts were shared by Dr M Rela, …
Washington: Scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough which could stop patients rejecting organ transplants, without using immunosuppressants. An international team, led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has in fact discovered a method of adjusting the immune system for just long enough to receive a tissue transplant …
Ramya Kannan 60 organs have given a fresh lease of life to 59 persons CHENNAI: Between October 2008 and mid-March 2009, Tamil Nadu overshot the rest of the country in terms of the total number of cadaver organ donations. Simultaneously, a record number of organs harvested from these cadavers have …
Shimla: Himachal resident Dr D.S. Rana, chairman of department of nephrology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, has been awarded the Padmashri for his distinguished services in the field of medicine in the country and rural areas of Himachal Pradesh. Dr Rana is among the pioneers to establish nephrology …
Mumbai Just as nephrologists were beginning to believe that the organ transplant programme was gaining momentum-considering a splendid performance in the first month of the year by the city
