Helping in our genes, collective effort can boost organ donation, says Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya PUNE: Organ donation must pick up pace to match the wide gap between patients who need...
India’s Brain Death Definition: Supreme Court Reopens Debate on Medical Protocols India stands at a delicate crossroads. A recent Supreme Court order has reopened the debate on how we define...
A Death-Defining Debate There are universally recognised scientific protocols for declaring brain death, which have been developed over 60 years. Yet India still does not have a legally and clinically...
Here’s Why India’s Organ Donation System Struggles Despite Willing Donors...
Here’s Why India’s Organ Donation System Struggles Despite Willing Donors Like he did as John McClane in his ‘Die Hard’ outings, Bruce Willis is hanging in offscreen too. Just that the loud...
IIMA Hosts International Conference on Organ Donation The Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), in collaboration with MOHAN...
2nd Edition of the KIMS National Conclave 2025 Held at KIIT The Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), hosted the 2nd edition of the KIMS National Conclave 2025 at the KIIT Convention...
Manipal Hospitals Kolkata Hosts Organ Donation Summit – “Best Practices in Organ Donation” Kolkata: Manipal Hospitals, under its flagship initiative Manipal Organ Sharing & Transplant (MOST)...
Dr K M Cherian, who performed India’s first bypass surgery, dies in Bengaluru Dr K M Cherian, a pioneer heart surgeon who performed the country’s first coronary artery bypass, passed away on Saturday...
3 -day prog on cutting-edge digital health initiatives at IIM-Raipur The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, partnering with the Academy of Digital Health Sciences (ADHS), successfully...
Coventry University, Warwickshire NHS Trust Enter Organ Transplantation Tie-up Coventry University, Warwickshire NHS Trust, and University Hospitals Coventry have joined forces for organ...
AI-based system identifies right recipient for kidney transplant with 80% accuracy Artificial Intelligence can now answer a question that experienced transplant surgeons haven’t been able to — how...
Charity golf tournament raises awareness on organ donation, education The Cosmo TNGF Golf Course in Chennai hosted a charity tournament organised by MOHAN Foundation and the Rotary Club of Madras Next...
‘Blood type O. DM me’: Myanmar’s poorest are so desperate they’re turning to social media to sell their kidneys Hong Kong/New Delhi — Delivery driver Maung Maung’s wife and young daughter hadn’t eaten...
In 27 yrs, public hosps saw just 36 cadaver donations, pvt 680 Mumbai: The mood in KEM Hospital, Parel, was one of euphoria on Friday afternoon. Cardiac surgeons who hadn’t slept a wink in 36 hours...
This Doctor Returned From The UK & Inspired 2.5 Million Indians to Become Future Organ Donors Dr Sunil Shroff, a renal transplant surgeon, established the MOHAN Foundation in 1997 after facing...
State government notifies two new panels for overseeing organ transplant law Jaipur: Following the fake NoC for organ transplant scam, the state govt is now taking measures to rectify the mistakes it...
What drives the illegal organ trade in India? | In Focus podcast Dr Sunil Shroff speaks to us about organ transplant laws in India, how loopholes can be plugged to curb organ commerce, the demand...
For 1st time, yearly cadaver donations cross 1,000 in 2023 MUMBAI: For the first time, the annual number of cadaver (or deceased) donors in India crossed the four-digit mark in 2023.This is not the...
Beyond Brain Death, Sc Norms On Living Will Offer New Hope For Organ Donation The Supreme Court’s decision to streamline the processes of withdrawal of or withholding medical treatment has...
3rd edition of CII Medclave held to share best practices of digital healthcare CHENNAI: The 3rd edition of CII TN Medclave 2023 with the theme Healthcare 4.0: Decoding Digital Transformation was held...
Why are 80% of organ donors in India women? Transplant surgeons weigh in “It is easier to dissuade a man than a woman,” says Dr Sunil Shroff, urologist and managing trustee of MOHAN Foundation, an...
NGO To Hold Organ Donation Drive Chennai: MOHAN Foundation, an NGO promoting ethical organ donation, will hold a golf tournament, ‘drive to save lives’, on August 25 at Guindy Golf Course...
Why does India have so few organ donors? Experts believe that significant changes are needed to increase the donor rate in the South Asian nation.India has one of the world’s lowest rates of...
JNIMS hold workshop on organ donation Imphal, Apr 2 (DIPR) : A workshop on Strengthening of Organ Donation and Transplantation Process was held at the Conference Hall of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of...
Explained: Changed organ donation regulations that will help the elderly Under the proposed one nation, one organ allocation’ policy, the government ends the 65-year cap for receiving cadaver...
Dr KR Balakrishnan honoured for 500-plus successful heart & lung transplants in India Dr K R Balakrishnan, Chairman – Cardiac Sciences, Director – Institute of Heart and Lung...
JNIMS conducts kidney transplant, elates CM Imphal, June 26 2022: Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) has created history in the held of kidney transplant by becoming the first...
Ruby Hall Clinic kidney transplant case: Transplants will halt if harassment continues, warn doctors associations In the wake of the kidney transplant malpractice case involving Pune’s Ruby Hall...
SABERA 2021 highlight ESG and SDG Best Practices in India Themed ‘Purpose beyond Profit’, the fourth consecutive edition of Social and Business Enterprise Responsible Awards & Summit...
Betting on happy stories The 1990 hit film Anjali, directed by Mani Ratnam and starring popular Tollywood star Revathy, was about a mentally disabled child and the travails of the parents. It opened...
Why family can’t decide who gets donated organ Trending New Delhi: Can a deceased donor’s family decide whom the donated organ should go to? While some developed countries allow this, India doesn’t...
Edelweiss Tokio Life unveils educational program for organ donation in 2nd edition of #NoMoreWaiting initiative Mumbai: Continuing its social initiative #NoMoreWaiting for a second year, Edelweiss...
Transplant organs in short supply in India during COVID-19 pandemic BANGALORE — As September rolled in, Mr Kamlesh Gadage visited the hospital for the 10th time in eight months. The 36-year-old...
An organic decline HYDERABAD: Sixty eight-year-old Arumugam* joined the transplant waitlist for a liver in March this year. Six months down the line, with the pandemic having rewritten the norms of...
Plans afoot to rope in more private hospitals, ease process The organ donation rate in India has increased from 0.08 to almost 0.8 per million population in a span of nine years. But the entire...
Organ donations in Tamil Nadu drop by 12% in one year CHENNAI: On Monday, as the state health minister boasted about how Tamil Nadu has secured awards for organ donation consecutively for four year...
‘Brain dead’ babies too can donate organs now Trending MUMBAI: A panel of medical experts has drafted guidelines to tackle the ambiguity over declaring brain deaths in the paediatric age group...
Youngsters steer India’s organ donation drive The Indian youth’s sense of altruism and love for social action are emerging as the mainstay of the country’s organ donation and...
Organs going waste in Chennai, say surgeons Trending CHENNAI: State organ transplant authority Transtan’s message three months ago to all hospitals to ensure organs are not alloted to foreign patients...
Time to look beyond numbers Dynamic trauma care centres offering state-of-the-art medical care to accident victims will not just save lives but also improve the quality of organs that come into the...
An initiative to bust myths on organ donation A Tamil movie starring actor Sivakarthikeyan portrays a hospital administering carbon monoxide to patients to render them brain dead for harvesting...
Tamil Nadu loses top spot but gains in use of organs Tamil Nadu saw a double hand transplant, a multivisceral transplant including part of a stomach, highest number of lung transplants and maximum...
Life, In Parts | Good Companions The GoodJewellers by profession, the two were active in public life and, through the Jaipur Citizens Forum, were encouraging eye donation when they met Sunil Shroff...
TN continues to top in organ donation Chennai: For the fourth consecutive year, Tamilnadu tops the list in organ donation in India. Reports suggest the Transplant Authority of Tamilnadu (Transtan) has...
Youths turn saviours, breathe life into India’s organ donation drive Fifteen-year-old Mumbai resident Vaibhav Sanghavi had just completed his Class X exams in 2016 when he was asked a question that is...
Qutub turns green for organ donation NEW DELHI: The iconic Qutub Minar was on Saturday evening lit up in bright green to highlight the cause of organ donation — conventionally represented by a green...
Dr Palin advocates deceased organ donation in State Imphal, December 23 2017: Saying that the demand for organ donors in the State is huge, Managing Director of Shija Hospital and Research Institute...
Medical experts deliberate on organ transplantation Imphal, December 22 2017: The Department of Surgery, JNIMS organised a meet on the Continuing Medical Education (CME) on Deceased Organ Donation...