Kidney cure
- Politics (19 Feb, 2007)
Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. ...
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- Health & Fitness (06 May, 2007)
New Saliva Test to Save 1,000 Unborn Babies Each Year
Scientists from UK are currently working on a simple saliva test that could easily and more effectively spot a deadly pregnancy complication, that kills hundreds of unborn babies each year. ...
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- Offbeat (28 May, 2007)
Woman's kidneys become a super-prise in TV show
In a new Dutch reality show a death-sick woman will choose one of the contestants to give her kidneys to after she dies. The TV show that has already raised a lot of concerns and argues, will start this week. ...
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- Offbeat (07 Sep, 2007)
Woman lives with needles inside her body
Chinese woman came to a hospital suffering from blood in her urine, when doctors found her body pierced inside with 26 needles. ...
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- Health & Fitness (13 Sep, 2007)
5-Year-Old Girl - Youngest in the World with Double Lung Transplant
Doctors had given Mariam Imran five months to live, but the donated organ saved the girl's life with help of the operation that returned her to normal life ...
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- Health & Fitness (22 Apr, 2008)
Life Expectancy of American Women Falls Significantly
A great number of American women face shorter life expectancy than in the early 1980s, scientists say ...
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- Health & Fitness (22 May, 2008)
Number of Alcohol Related Illnesses Doubled in the UK
Royal British Healthcare Organization claimed that in the UK the number of people, who have been treated from illnesses caused by alcohol consumption, has doubled during the last 10 years. ...
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- Offbeat (06 Jun, 2008)
NY Plans to Introduce Transplant Ambulance
New York City is planning to create an ambulance that will rapidly arrive to newly deceased to preserve their bodies for further organ transplant. ...
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- Offbeat (15 Sep, 2008)
Tainted Milk Kills Another Chinese Baby
The scandal with the tainted milk formula started shortly after two babies in China died from the powder milk. Another baby recently died in Gansu province, located in the northwest, after taking the infant milk powder developed by the Sanlu Group. ...
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- Health & Fitness (13 Oct, 2008)
Knowledge Pills
A lot of experiments nowadays are dedicated to the enlightening of our brains. Statistics show that there are approximately 600 medicines meant to treat the disturbances of the nervous system, a good part of which not only treat the disturbances, but also stimulate a normal nervous system. ...
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- Current Events (22 Oct, 2008)
Wal-Mart Loses Confidence in Chinese Products
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., an American public corporation, declared that the recent child sicknesses in China caused by over toxic milk products necessitate setting up new requirements for Chinese suppliers. ...
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- Science (11 Nov, 2008)
Scientists Developed Nanomaterial Which Could be Used to Create Implantable Devices
A group of scientists from the North Caroline State University were able to discovered that the unique properties of new nanomaterial could be use to make new devices, which could be implanted into the human body. ...
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- Health & Fitness (14 Dec, 2008)
Woman Dies Because Of Water Diet
Sometimes the fight for perfection can lead to tragic results. Precisely this happened to the 40-years-old Jacqueline Henson, who decided to stay on a diet made upon the recipe of a company, called LighterLife. ...
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- Offbeat (08 Jan, 2009)
Man Asks Estranged Wife to Pay for His Kidney
After their marriage, Dr. Richard Batista from New York gave his kidney to save his ill wife. Now the couple decided to divorce and the man asks for his kidney back. ...
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- Health & Fitness (03 Feb, 2009)
Surgeons Remove Healthy Kidney Through Vagina
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins carried out what is believed to be the first ever operation of removing a healthy kidney through a tiny cut in the back of the donor's vagina. The surgery called transvaginal donor kidney extraction is now considered to be historic. ...
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