Brain Dead Persons

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

A US medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person, a transplant breakthrough hailed as a "potential miracle" by the surgeon who led the procedure.

Two kidneys and the liver of a 58-year-old brain-dead person from the city were donated to three patients admitted in two separate hospitals in the city on Thursday, the hospital authorities said.

A brain dead retired teacher became instrumental in giving new lease of lives to seven persons, as his vital organs were given to these patients.

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

A 24-year-old woman who was declared brain dead by a hospital, following an accident, gave a new lease of life to five persons, as her vital organs were donated to them.

Three persons got a new lease of life after the vital organs of a 54-year-old brain dead textile worker were transplanted on them on Saturday.

A brain dead young engineer has given new lease of life to four persons who were transplanted with vital organs harvested from him.

A man who was left brain-dead after suffering serious side-effects during a drugs trial in France died today, according to the hospital which had been treating him.

One person has been left brain dead and five others have been hospitalised after taking part in a clinical trial in France of an experimental drug made by Portuguese drug company Bial, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Friday.

In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was today used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead patient from Kochi to a hospital in Chennai.

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

Two persons got a new lease of life after organs harvested from a 77-year-old man, declared brain stem dead, were transported through a green corridor within 21 minutes and transplanted into them.

In just two minutes, film director Vijay's 'Thank You' gets its message across on how a single brain dead person can give life to seven other people.

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

A US medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person, a transplant breakthrough hailed as a "potential miracle" by the surgeon who led the procedure.

Two kidneys and the liver of a 58-year-old brain-dead person from the city were donated to three patients admitted in two separate hospitals in the city on Thursday, the hospital authorities said.

A brain dead retired teacher became instrumental in giving new lease of lives to seven persons, as his vital organs were given to these patients.

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

A 24-year-old woman who was declared brain dead by a hospital, following an accident, gave a new lease of life to five persons, as her vital organs were donated to them.

Three persons got a new lease of life after the vital organs of a 54-year-old brain dead textile worker were transplanted on them on Saturday.

A brain dead young engineer has given new lease of life to four persons who were transplanted with vital organs harvested from him.

A man who was left brain-dead after suffering serious side-effects during a drugs trial in France died today, according to the hospital which had been treating him.

One person has been left brain dead and five others have been hospitalised after taking part in a clinical trial in France of an experimental drug made by Portuguese drug company Bial, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Friday.

In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was today used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead patient from Kochi to a hospital in Chennai.

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

Two persons got a new lease of life after organs harvested from a 77-year-old man, declared brain stem dead, were transported through a green corridor within 21 minutes and transplanted into them.

In just two minutes, film director Vijay's 'Thank You' gets its message across on how a single brain dead person can give life to seven other people.