AFMS keen to set up first intestinal transplant facility

Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2012, 20:44

Armed forces to start intestinal transplant facility at defence hospital in Delhi, lack of which in country has come into focus following plight of the 23-year-old rape-victim shifted to Singapore.

Delhi hospital offers gang-rape victim free intestinal transplant

Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2012, 16:21

A city hospital on Friday offered the 23-year-old girl free intestinal transplant.

Delhi hospital offers rape victim free intestinal transplant

Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2012, 16:06

As people in their hordes hit the streets of Delhi to vent grief and anger over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman last Sunday, a city hospital Friday offered the victim free intestinal transplant.

Maharashtra aims to boost organ donations, widens net

Last Updated: Monday, October 1, 2012, 13:49

In a bid to boost organ donations, the Maharashtra government has initiated several measures aimed at strengthening the health network and widening the net of prospective donors, a top official said Monday.

NASA completes `brain transplant` on Mars rover

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 15:21

NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has announced that it has completed "brain transplant" on Mars rover Curiosity.

Curiosity rover gets `brain transplant`

Last Updated: Monday, August 13, 2012, 23:38

The software for Mars surface operations was uploaded to the rover`s memory during the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft`s flight from Earth.

China: 137 arrested for human organ trafficking

Last Updated: Saturday, August 4, 2012, 16:17

Statistics from the Ministry of Health show that about 1.5 million Chinese need organ transplants.

Liver transplant in India saves Yemeni boy

Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2012, 17:27

The Malek family from Yemen had lost all hope when nine-year-old Abdul was diagnosed with the same liver disease that had killed his two siblings.

Innovative liver surgery saves 2-year-old Omani girl

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 09:19

An Omani girl suffering from acute liver failure was given a new life by Chennai doctors through an innovative procedure called auxiliary liver transplant.

`Stem cells stay alive for 17 days in dead bodies`

Last Updated: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 10:46

Scientists have revealed that some stem cells can lay dormant for more than two weeks in a dead person and then be revived to divide into new, functioning cells.

Ganga Ram hospital performs successful heart transplant

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 18:10

Surviving all odds, 44-year-old Sunita represents a success story of heart transplants in the city.

HC allow kidneys donation by distant relative

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 20:58

Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked a panel of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to reverse its earlier decision and allow "forthwith" a distant relative of hers to donate one of her kidneys to save her life.