Organs

Organs made from cloned embryos

Using building material from cloned cow embryos, scientists say they have constructed miniature kidneys that appear to function similar to genuine organs. Embryos contain master cells called stem cells that have the potential to grow into any tissue in the body.// In this case, they grew the embryos to the stage where they could identify cells destined to become kidney cells. While it is still un...

Pig cloning for organs

Researchers say they've taken a major step toward cloning pigs whose hearts, lungs and kidneys could be safely transplanted into humans. Such organs would save the lives of thousands of critically ill people who cannot get transplants because of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same cloning technique that created the sheep Dolly, scientists say they produced four piglets witho...

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

WASHINGTON. In a breakthrough research scientists have for the first time been able to turn the embryonic stem cells in 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...

Executed Prisoner Organs For Sale In China: BTS Concerned

Transplant experts in Britain have accused China of removing organs from executed prisoners and selling them without prior consent of the prisoners and their families//. There is increasing evidence, which highlights that organs from executed prisoners are being removed for human transplantation purposes in an illegal way, according to reports of the British Transplantation Society (B...

Ontario Addresses Shortage of Transplant Organs

Ontario will soon become the first province in Canada to start accepting transplant organs from people who have died of heart failure//. The provincial agency in charge of organ and tissue donations announced that changes in guidelines that allowed accepting donation after cardio-circulatory death (DCD) could potentially expand the potential donor pool by hundreds. This move t...

Donation Of Blood, Organs, Act Of Great Humanity: Shekhawat

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India wants the Government and people to work together to highlight// the need for donation of blood and organ donation. In India. Inaugurating the blood bank of Indian Red Cross Society, Bihar chapter here, the Vice President asked the government and people to work in tandem for the noble cause adding that voluntary donors of blood and org...

Radiation Cocktail May Reduce Risk of Damage To Other Organs In Breast Cancer

A new study to be reported August 1 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Orlando, contends that a specific mixture// of electron and x-ray beams that are targeted at certain areas may reduce the risk of collateral damage in breast cancer patients. Jinsheng Li, Ph.D. (Jinsheng.Li@fccc.edu) and Chang-Ming Ma, Ph.D. of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

A rare transplant at TG Hospital gave a B.C. youngster a bowel, liver, pancreas and stomach. Lori MacIver of Prince George, B.C. was told to prepare// for the death of her son. She said, "They were telling me to prepare and to accept, but I still wasn't on that page." Her son Gairett, 18, is now recovering following a high-risk, four-organ transplant operation on Aug. 1 at Toronto Gen...

Environmental Pollutants Could Impact the Size of Sexual Organs

High levels of certain environmental pollutants could impact the size of sexual organs in animals and probably humans, say scientists.// Christian Sonne and colleagues at National Environmental Research Institute at Denmark checked 55 male and 44 female East Greenland polar bears for a correlation between the pollutant levels in body tissue and the size of sexual organs. Ex...

Organs – For a price

This weeks BMJ has reopened a fresh debate on the issue of organ donation. The author advocates that a legitimate and regulated system for compensating// organ donors will help in meeting the excessive demand for transplants and prevent exploitation of poor people. The author who is an organ transplant surgeon by profession has opined that payments for live organ donation would cater...

Doctors remove female organs from man

Doctors here have surgically removed female reproductive organs from the body of a man who is serving sentence// for rape. "Along with male reproductive organs, we also found a uterus and ovaries and removed them. Both these organs have been sent for tests to rule out tumour," said R.K. Sharma, the doctor who conducted the operation late Saturday. "This is a very rare case...

HIV Positive Organs Transplanted

In a shocking incident in a hospital in Italy, organs from HIV positive patient were transplanted to three patients. This error of a gigantic// proportion occurred in Careggi hospital in Florence. Kidneys and liver from a 41 year old dead woman infected with AIDS were donated to three patients. The hospital authorities term this as a ‘tragic human error’. According to the director of th...

High-fat and Sugary Diet Severely Damage Liver and Other Vital Organs

A new study has shown the severe repercussions of high-fat food combined with sugar-sweetened high fructose corn syrup diet and a sedentary lifestyle, on liver and other vital organs. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Brent Tetri at Saint Louis University. As part of the study, researchers examined mice for 16 weeks to see the effects of a diet t...

Ban on Trade of Human Organs in China

Trading in Human Organ has been finally banned in China. It has banned organizations and individuals from trading in human organs //in any form. This regulation will be effective from May 1st 2007. China currently performs about 5,000 transplants; mostly kidneys every year and after the USA is the largest transplanting country. It has in the past; constantly been in the li...

Armed Forces Officers And Other Dignitaries Pledge Organs For Donation

In a unique ceremony, Armed Forces officers including senior doctors and other dignitaries pledged their organs for donation at Army Hospital (R&R), here today. Amongst// others, Ms Nikita Anand and Ms Gul Panag, both former Miss India, Mrs Shyama Chona, Principal DPS, RK Puram, New Delhi, Mr Ajit Bajaj, the first Indian to conquer North & South poles and eminent media personality Col Ajai Shukla...