US doctor donates bone marrow to save child’s life; Know his inspiring storyWhen paediatrist Ali Alsamarah in Florida state of the US got a call and was informed that he was a potential match for a child who despera...
08 Oct, 2023, 01.44 AM IST
8-year-old girl gets UK's first kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs. What we know so farEight-old-girl Aditi Shankar became the first person in the UK to get a kidney transplant without needing to get life-long drugs. How did t...
22 Sep, 2023, 10.43 PM IST
WKYC Channel 3 news anchor, Jim Donovan, faces Leukemia diagnosis once againJim Donovan informed about his leukamia relapse during an episode of 3 News' Front Row. He had earlier been diagnosed with chronic lymphocy...
01 Jun, 2023, 06.33 PM IST
This is how doctors cured a German HIV-positive patient, check hereIn Germany, a man became the third person to be completely cured of the HIV virus after receiving a stem cell transplant, also known as a b...
24 Feb, 2023, 07.04 PM IST
Difficult to scale up expensive therapy beyond a point: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawCAR-T therapies, previously not available in India, have shown promising results for patients who have exhausted all other means of treatme...
03 Feb, 2023, 09.42 PM IST
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds sends heart-warming video message to 6-year-old boy in need of life-saving treatment. Watch hereHollywood actor and Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds posted a video supporting a boy diagnosed with Pre-Leukemia and needs immediate treatmen...
15 Oct, 2022, 07.49 PM IST
PM Modi to inaugurate hospital in Punjab todayThe hospital has been built by the Central government at a cost of over '660 crore. The cancer hospital is a tertiary care hospital with a ...
24 Aug, 2022, 12.21 AM IST
Swelling of hands & feet, fatigue, irritability: Everything you need to know about sickle cell diseaseThe symptoms aggravate due to dehydration, infection and hypoxia.
27 Jul, 2018, 10.47 AM IST
13 medical visas issued to Pakistani nationalsThis follows a directive from external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, who has helped a number of critically ill patients get visas to visi...
19 Oct, 2017, 12.15 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj asks Indian mission to grant medical visa to Pakistani girlSwaraj has been taking a sympathetic approach in granting medical visas to Pakistani nationals, notwithstanding strain in ties between Indi...
17 Oct, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
- Rugby-Australia back Lealiifano's leukaemia in remission
RUGBY UNION-SUPER/LEALIIFANO:Rugby-Australia back Lealiifano's leukaemia in remission
19 Feb, 2017, 08.14 AM IST
- Rugby-Australia's Leali'ifano to have bone marrow transplant
RUGBY UNION-AUSTRALIA/LEALIIFANO:Rugby-Australia's Leali'ifano to have bone marrow transplant
14 Oct, 2016, 07.55 AM IST
Bone marrow registry now collects saliva, not blood from donorsNonprofit bone marrow registry set up by BMC alumni with Infosys aid makes sample collection from potential donors a two-minute affair.
21 Sep, 2015, 10.55 AM IST
Embryonic stem cells could heal damaged lungs: ResearchEmbryonic stem cells can be used to repair damaged lung tissue in those with severe respiratory disease, researchers have found.
15 Jul, 2015, 04.37 PM IST
Bangalore Medical College alumni to build India's largest bone marrow registryIndia makes up about 18% of the world's population, but the number of Indian names on any bone-marrow registry in the world is less than 2%.
30 Apr, 2015, 10.43 AM IST
Indian in Saudi Arabia to donate stem cell to save boy's lifeAn Indian national living in Saudi Arabia will donate stem cell for a local boy who is in dire need of bone marrow transplant.
22 Sep, 2014, 04.13 PM IST
Odisha to set up Bone Bank, starts bone marrow transplantationThe bone transplantation works would be conducted by the department of haematology as the orthopaedics department will look after the bone ...
07 May, 2014, 05.05 PM IST