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 country's first bilateral lung transplant was performed at the Madras Medical Mission (mmm) in Chennai, on April 26. Experts hailed the nine hour long operation as unique and the "first of its kind in Asia". Besides, the 27-year-old Sri Lankan recipient, who has his heart on the right side …
after a long period of reluctance and fear, cadaveric organ transplant is gradually finding acceptance. Topping the list is kidney transplants in Chennai, for which the city had earlier earned notoriety. Renal transplants are also fairly common here. Chennai doctors say that now it is easier to seek the consent …
in its latest report, Animal to Human Transplant: The Ethics of Transplantation , Nuffield council, an influential bioethics advisory group and independent watchdog in the uk, concluded that the risk associated with the possible transmission of infectious diseases as a consequence of xenotransplantation (transplanting organs of one species to another) …
recently in Sonapur, Assam, heart surgeon Dhaniram Baruah and his team, including Jonathan Ho of Hong Kong, transplanted a pig's heart into Purno Saikia, a 32-year-old heart patient. Saikia survived for less than a week and fell to the grotesque experiment of an overambitious doctor. Saikia, a terminally-ill patient, would …
Scientists from the University of Pretoria in South Africa have developed a new, non-toxic, cryopreservant liquid that would make possible the preservation of organs at very low temperatures. Efforts at doing so had been frustrated till now because extreme cold damages cell membranes beyond repair. The researchers have just resuscitated …
diabetes makes the life of a patient sour. Sugar-rich preparations are struck off the menu of the patient because the body fails to regulate the blood-sugar level. The insulin-making capacity of the body wanes, or just stops, and requires either daily injections of the hormone or extremely careful control over …
XENOTRANSPLANTS - animal to human transplants - have won ethical approval after the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, set up to debate medical morality, gave its go-ahead. However, while xenotransplants are in principle an ethical way of dealing with the shortage of human organs for transplant, one "should proceed with caution, …
ORGAN transplant rejections could soon become a thing of the past. A new drug which can halve the rejection rate of transplanted organs and billed as 'the most exciting development in transplantation in the 'last decade', has been recently developed by the UK-b6sed Roche company. Though the drug, CellCept, could …
WITH worldwide shortage of human ns for transplantation, xenotransrnt surgery is a welcome change. The Ift,Apinsfer of animal organs into humans prevent organ donors from being rived of an organ, and the right unt of money. If unlimited organs available, about 100,000 transplant cries would be conducted in the us …
Why do females sometimes reject transplants from males? This mysal tery was partially solved recently, when a cell marker that makes male tissues unacceptable to females was identified by two groups of sciento tists separately -one at the 1e Hammersmith Hospital in London and the other at the Leiden 101 …
Take heart .. says Imutran, a Chambridge-based British biotechoology firm to ailing heart patients. It is preparing to present them with a brand new set of is organ that will be carved out i special breed of transgenic p dleveloped specifically for pairpose. The pigs are unique ammir their organs …
The recent banning of kidney transplants among non-relatives by the Indian government has proved to be a setback for hundreds of Sri Lankan kidney patients unable to find enough local organs for transplanting. To worsen the matters, the only medical unit of the country performing kidney transplants since 1985, the …
RESEARCHERS are contemplating the use of pig organs in order to overcome human donor organ shortage. The pig organs - such as hearts, kidneys, pancreatic glands - will be extensively researched and ready for use probably within 3 years, they contend. Pigs have been selected because their organs are about …
The All-India Association for Voluntary Donations of Human Organs After Death has launched a campaign against illegal organ transplants, directed at nurses, clerks, ward boys and other paramedical personnel. A reward of Rs 11,000 awaits anyone providing information on such operations. Following a tip-off, representatives of the Association will verify …
THE notification of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, finally announced by the Union government in the first week of February, had long been promised as a sharp, surgical strike against the practitioners of the human organs trade in the country. Going by the reception it has been accorded, …
THE euphoria among cardiologists at the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) over the country's first heart transplant operation has proved to be shortlived. Plans to perform another such operation in October received a setback when the prospective recipient, 38 year-old Ram Kali, suddenly refused to accept a …
With only Parliament's approval of the Organ Transplant Bill on June 15 gave a chance to a team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi to perform India's first successful heart transplant. The operation was performed on August 3 on Deviram, a 45-year-old patient …
About 13,000 eyeballs are collected every year in India, but only about 7,000 of them are actually used in corneal graft surgeries. One of the main reasons for this pathetic situation is that eyebanks in India do not have the facilities to preserve these eyeballs, which have to be used …
THE GROWING global market for organ transplants is likely to receive a boost. A Japanese government advisory committee has proposed that organs from persons certified as brain dead should be allowed to be removed, according to reports in the country's press. Japan is the only major market in the world …
• Western mining companies are rushing towards a new eldorado: Cuba. This year, Joutel Resources of Canada became the first western firm to sign an exploration agreement with the Cuban mining agency Geominera. And, with a mining analyst calling Cuba a "genuinely under-explored area", Joutel is being followed by Australia's …
