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First Crossover Kidney Transplantation In Germany

...splantation law of 1997. To prevent trade in human organs the German law as anywhere, allows transplantation only between close relatives or between people who have a close relationship, such as a longstanding friendship. Every arrangement in which one person offers a kidney to another has to be scrutiniz...

High concentration of heavy metals in Herbal medicines

...y accumulate and thereby disrupt function in vital organs and glands such as the heart, brain, kidneys, bone, liver, etc. Secondly, they displace vital nutritional minerals from their original place thereby, hindering biological function. It is however impossible to live in an environment free of heavy meta...

Aprotinin in the treatment of hemorrhagic shock trauma patients

...rvative treatment of bleeding from solid abdominal organs has been traditionally based on massive fluid resuscitation and correction of coagulopathy, which has latelybeen recognized as detrimental. // Although there are new and sophisticated methods for the control of hemorrhage, bleeding is still the direc...

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

... the lab into a type of cell that can give rise to organs such as pancreas, liver and lungs. // This important advancement will help scientists to use stem cells to repair diseased or damaged organs. The embryonic stem cells is almost like a magic cell that can give rise to all the different cell types fo...

Survey finds that discussion with family very crucial in organ donation decision

...achieved every day. The worldwide demand for human organs has prompted researchers to look into the concept ...d they would be likely to donate a family member's organs if that person had expressed the desire to be a donor. This percentage is much higher when compared ...

Global Hospitals coming to city of Joy

...alities, with the primary focus on transplants of organs like liver, heart, kidney and bone marrow. The key facility at the hospital will be the city’s first bone and heart value bank. Besides, it will have hotels and malls on the campus. To start with, the hospital will have 300 beds, which will be i...

Kasturba Medical College Organizes 'CME- Orth 2005' From 4th To 6th November

...as over 1000 dissected specimens of the human body organs and animals. The museum has been established by Dr S.S. Godbole, the college's first Anatomy Professor and has contributed 650 specimens by careful dissection, processing and mounting. His techniques are being followed even today. The museum was op...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

... parents made a surprising decision: to donate his organs to sick people, "no matter Israelis or Arabs". A ... remembered my brother." "I don't mind seeing the organs in an Israeli or a Palestinian. In our religion, god allows us to give organs to another person and ...

Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates

...er scientists who are working to regenerate bigger organs like the liver and kidneys, Washenik said. The same notion was expressed by Sinclair, who's testing a skin cream in mice that may alter follicle behavior by fiddling with genes. (He says he can't discuss the results because they are a commercial se...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

...derwent examination for microscopic changes in all organs and tissues, a process different from the aspartame studies conducted 30 years ago and one that was designed to allow aspartame to fully express any carcinogenic potential. The treated animals showed extensive evidence of malignant cancers including...

Organ Scandals Compensation And The Aftermath

...e, the families of more than 1,200 children, whose organs were removed after death without their parents' knowledge ,will each receive Compensations.// On an average of about ￡2,900 in a compensation deal announced recently ,in the United Kingdom. The NHS which is the apex body had fought the cases invol...

Widespread Commercialisation Of Human Organ Donation In China

Shocking reports of organs from executed prisoners being sold to foreigners f... HIV, such instances of commercialisation of human organs continue to expose the deficits in the legal, social and ethical perspective with respect to human t...

Love And Drug Addiction Share The Same Chemistry

...sed blood flow to the cheeks (blushing) and sexual organs (sensation of butterflies in the stomach). The only difference between drug abuse in this regard is that the above-mentioned effect is less pronounced. Furthermore, the study also highlights the fact that ‘Birds of the same feather flock together’....

Initial Steps In Spread Of Cancer Identified

...ce certain bone marrow cells to migrate to distant organs and prepare the site for further colonization by the tumor. If these bone marrow cells can be blocked by drugs, then the spread of cancer, which is what makes the disease so deadly can be easily contained, "These nests provide attachment factors for ...

Study supports century-old cancer theory

... the ability to migrate to lymph nodes and distant organs and to form a new blood supply,' said lead author John Pawelek in Yale`s school of medicine. 'Our data indicate they do this by hybridizing with macrophages.' Pawelek said the idea of white blood cells hybridizing with tumor cells is not new. Durin...

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...stigator Charles Cox. The bone, muscle and other organs have an inherent capacity to heal following an injury. The brain however has very poor regenerative capacity, accounting for the high mortality and functional disability following traumatic brain injury. More that 15 to 25% of children suffering seve...

First Frontal CSF Endoscopic surgery performed in Chennai

...rt to the brain and spinal cord and protects these organs from injury and in CSF rhinorrhoea condition leakage of the CSF occurs through the nose which is blocked by cartilage replacement. The frontal CSF leak Endoscopic surgery is done for the first time in India and has shown successful recovery and treat...

Senile Dementia Can Be Detected In Its Early Stages

...ppocampus or amygdala. The group with the smallest organs was several times more likely to suffer dementia at some point, in the case of a small hippocampus four times more likely, and in the case of a small amygdala, six times. The link between Alzheimer's and a small hippocampus or amygdala has been kn...

Australia Witnesses A Fall In the Number of Organ Donors

...in the number of people who come forward to donate organs especially kidneys. Due to this the waiting time of the patients to undergo kidney transplants has widened to more than four years. Statistics of The Australia and New Zealand Organ Donor Registry showed that there were 218 donors in 2004 but it h...

Methyl-DNA binding Proteins To Fight Cancer

... to be dozens of times higher than that in healthy organs and tissues. ‘Kaiso-zero' mice were then used which were found to be resistant to cancer. The same resistance to cancer was acquired by the mice whose DNA methylation had been suppressed by other methods. The Kaiso protein can be potentially used f...

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