Shyam Benegal's restored version of Manthan to be released on TV. Where to watch it for freeManthan, a landmark film about Dr. Verghese Kurien's milk cooperative revolution, will be screened on Doordarshan in a 4K restored version....
31 Dec, 2024, 03.38 PM IST
'Very rare incident': Mumbai mother-in-law donates kidney to daughter-in-lawIn a heartwarming gesture, a 70-year-old woman from Mumbai donated one of her kidneys to her 43-year-old daughter-in-law. The rare incident...
06 Aug, 2023, 01.48 PM IST
Health insurance cover eludes many organ donorsTheir existing insurance covers the cost of transplant and post-operative treatment, but a new enhanced insurance post-surgery is difficult...
15 Sep, 2022, 10.48 AM IST
IndiGo saves life in Mumbai, carries heart from Vadodara in 2.5 hoursThe Gurgaon-based airline delivered the heart from the operation theatre to Global Hospital in two hours and twenty-two minutes, well withi...
15 Jun, 2022, 03.13 PM IST
Maharashtra may make private hospitals provide lifetime medical assistance to kin of donorsState Ministers Deepak Sawant and Girish Mahajan were addressing reporters here today after inaugurating the website 'dmer.org/new/organ.ht...
18 Aug, 2016, 09.05 PM IST
How cadaver organ donation could turn government hospitals into donor bases that cater to the affluentA govt effort aimed at widening the scale of deceased organ donations inadvertently becomes a stark metaphor of inequality as it could turn...
05 Jun, 2016, 06.33 AM IST
India's organ deficiency: How struggle for second chance at life gets extremely difficultWhile statistics show donations are not nearly enough to meet the requirements, the issue is not just about getting more people to donate o...
14 May, 2016, 04.28 AM IST
In death, kin of Parsi man gift life to five on Navroz eveSecretary of Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre, Dr Sujata Patwardhan, said this could be the first cadaveric organ donation by a Parsi.
18 Aug, 2015, 12.56 PM IST
Institutionalising organ donation: Crack down on dubious "good Samaritans" that play middlemenThe buying and selling of kidneys is strictly prohibited by law in India, under The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 and invites h...
16 Aug, 2015, 11.08 AM IST
Major religions view organ donation as charity: Tina Ambani"It is a sensitive issue in India owing to religious misgivings, fear and trepidation about lack of reliable medical infrastructure."
04 Aug, 2015, 02.14 PM IST
Air India flight leaves early for a change, flies heart to save critically ill manA man in Chennai was literally saved on a wing and a prayer after a beating heart was flown in by a AI flight and reached him in the nick o...
05 Jun, 2015, 11.55 AM IST
26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare's wife Kavita crematedThe mortal remains of Kavita Karkare, wife of slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare, were today cremated at Worli in south Mumbai.
30 Sep, 2014, 05.24 PM IST
Traffic halts to save life of a patient in ChennaiA medical team transported a heart from Government General Hospital to Fortis Malar Hospitals in Adyar, about 12km away, in less than 14 mi...
17 Jun, 2014, 11.13 AM IST
Indian-origin doctor Hemant Thatte finds ‘solution’ to problem of organ preservationSenior cardiovascular surgeon at Harvard University Dr Hemant Thatte has worked out a 21-chemical solution that could preserve a donated or...
21 Feb, 2014, 10.45 AM IST
Vilasrao Deshmukh on life support as kidneys, liver failA week ago, Deshmukh himself felt his condition was deteriorating, and he was admitted to the Breach Candy hospital in the city.
07 Aug, 2012, 12.45 PM IST
- Kidney transplants cross blood group barrier
It was love that prompted Nashik resident Meera Dhikale to donate one of her kidneys to her husband Fakira, but in the process the couple m...
15 Sep, 2010, 01.52 AM IST
- Centre to seek CBI inquiry into Gurgaon kidney racket
The Centre on Tuesday said it would seek a CBI inquiry into the Gurgaon kidney racket and will bring in amendments to the National Organ Tr...
29 Jan, 2008, 03.25 PM IST