'Dead are the best to infuse life'.
LUCKNOW: The fate of liver transplant surgery lies with the dead human. Cadavaric donors, as medical experts prefer to call the dead donors, seem to emerge as the brightest prospect to infuse life into this stream of surgery, which until now has not yielded too many successful results. ...

City woman gets fresh lease of life.
PUNE: Nirmal Sharma (61) of Pune is probably the first patient in the country to have undergone a liver-cum-kidney transplant from live donors. The surgery was performed on her at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi in September. Addressing a news conference here on Thursday,...

Vital Therapies Appoints Liver Transplant Expert to Board of Directors.
Dr. J. Michael Millis Brings Hospital and Clinical Research Expertise to Company's Bioartificial Liver Treatment SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Vital Therapies, Inc. announced today that J. Michael Millis, M.D., has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Millis is professor of Surgery and...

A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship.
Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, & Peter Guarnaccia, eds. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Chapel Hill, N.C.: the university of North Carolina press, 2006; www.uncpress.unc.edu. In February 2003, a teenager from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due...

Dad's liver saves junk food lover.
Byline: Malathy Iyer MUMBAI: Tardeo teenager Pranay Poojari loves fast bikes, but has been asked to go slow. He has also been told to shun the roadside kebabs he used to gorge on thrice a week. The 18-year-old is recovering from a liver transplant he had to...

Lung transplants succeed in select older patients.
WASHINGTON -- Patients who are age 65 or older can successfully undergo lung transplantation, based on an experience with 48 patients treated at a single center. "Our results suggest that a select group of older patients can safely undergo lung transplant with acceptable outcomes," Dr. Sam Bastani...

Now, men ready to donate kidneys.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: It was a sudden crisis for Prem Pydah, a banker and father of two, last April. His wife Meena was diagnosed with advanced renal failure and her only hope was a kidney transplant. Time was running out and an ideal donor was...

'Awake' puts audiences to sleep; 'The Mist' just leaves them cold.
Supposedly, according to the publicity surrounding the new movie "Awake," one in 700 people wake up during surgery in the United States every year. The real risk here is that this might also be the number of people who stay awake during the film. "Awake" is an...

Medical services to undergo seachange.
Byline: Hitarth Pandya SURAT: Gone are the days when Surtis used to take pride in going to five star hospitals of Mumbai for treatment of the smallest health problem. The time has come for role reversal, if the medical fraternity is to be believed. With...

HC stays PGI appointments.
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court comprising justice Pradeep Kant and justice Ranvijai Singh has stayed the advertisement seeking appointments to various faculty positions like professors, additional and assistant professors at the Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS). The stay has come on a...