Kidney Transplant

At least seven people, including a 50-year-old Delhi-based woman doctor, have been arrested in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket running across Bangladesh and the Delhi-NCR region, police officials said on Tuesday.

In a significant milestone, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney on a 20-year-old man at the Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital in Tripura.

The surgery, which took place at Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, took less than two hours.

Tamil Nadu MP M Selvaraj died early this morning at a private hospital in Chennai where he was undergoing treatment for kidney-related illnesses. The 67-year-old Nagapattinam MP had undergone a kidney transplant in the past.

While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Chase Cooper, a Kentucky man battling stage 4 renal cell cancer, urgently needed a kidney transplant. His wife, Kaila Cooper, turned to social media, specifically Facebook, to seek a donor.

The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.

A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.

A dual kidney transplant on a patient who was on dialysis was performed for the first time at the AIIMS-Delhi, the hospital has said.

A 28-year-old woman with AB positive blood group donated her kidney to her 43-year-old husband, whose blood group was B positive.

The influencer waited a year to get treatment after finding out his health was seriously deteriorating.

The Directorate General of Health Services ( DGHS) has written a letter to the director of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) regarding a media report blaming Private Hospital in Delhi on an illegal kidney racket.

Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days.

At least seven people, including a 50-year-old Delhi-based woman doctor, have been arrested in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket running across Bangladesh and the Delhi-NCR region, police officials said on Tuesday.

In a significant milestone, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney on a 20-year-old man at the Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital in Tripura.

The surgery, which took place at Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, took less than two hours.

Tamil Nadu MP M Selvaraj died early this morning at a private hospital in Chennai where he was undergoing treatment for kidney-related illnesses. The 67-year-old Nagapattinam MP had undergone a kidney transplant in the past.

While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Chase Cooper, a Kentucky man battling stage 4 renal cell cancer, urgently needed a kidney transplant. His wife, Kaila Cooper, turned to social media, specifically Facebook, to seek a donor.

The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.

A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.

A dual kidney transplant on a patient who was on dialysis was performed for the first time at the AIIMS-Delhi, the hospital has said.

A 28-year-old woman with AB positive blood group donated her kidney to her 43-year-old husband, whose blood group was B positive.

The influencer waited a year to get treatment after finding out his health was seriously deteriorating.

The Directorate General of Health Services ( DGHS) has written a letter to the director of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) regarding a media report blaming Private Hospital in Delhi on an illegal kidney racket.

Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days.