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Air Pollution May Up Death Risk after Heart Transplant

Living in highly polluted areas can put heart transplant recipients at a higher risk of developing infections, thereby leading to death. The findings




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Insights Into Environmental Effects of Anti-Cancer Drugs

Chemotherapeutic drugs or antineoplastic agents used to treat various cancers enter the aquatic environment through human excretion and wastewater treatment facilities.




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Antioxidant Downs Damage Caused by Bisphenol A Exposure

CoQ10 (coenzyme Q10), a substance naturally produced by the human body and found in beef and fish, can reverse the harmful effects produced by BPA, according




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New York Times: Merchants of Thirst

Away from Nepal, in other water-impoverished megacities, authorities have proved that seemingly intractable shortages can be addressed, or at least somewhat allayed, while reining in private tankers.




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Economist Intelligence Unit: As the world’s philanthropists boost climate funding, let’s make water a priority

Claudia Sadoff, Director General of IWMI, argues that our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change and address food security could be counterproductive if we don’t pay more attention to water and its use.




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Levels of 'Remnant' or 'Ugly' Cholesterol much Higher than Formerly Believed

A completely different type of cholesterol is more likely to cause cardiovascular disease than previously believed. This is the remnant particle cholesterol




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Romantic Attachment Style Affects Finances and Well-being

Everyone approaches romantic relationships differently. On one end of the spectrum are people who crave closeness so much, they may come across as "clingy.




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DNA Variants Linked to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Gene expression levels vary across the developmental stage, cell type, and region in the brain. Genomic variants also contribute to the variation in expression,




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Antibodies Could Effectively Treat OCD

OCD patients have increased levels of Immuno-moodulin (Imood) protein in their lymphocytes. Antibody that neutralized Imood, can reduce the level of anxiety,




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FAO.org: Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world’s water

New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.




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Call for participants: 100 critical research questions for decision-makers in sub-Saharan Africa

Achieving food and nutrition security, reducing inequality, and preserving terrestrial ecosystems.




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Study Raises New Possibilities for Anticancer Therapy

EGR4 molecule known mainly for its role in male fertility was also found to serve as an important brake on immune activation, said researchers at the




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New Effective Stem Cell Transplant Method can Aid Blood Cancer Patients

New study developed a novel way to make blood stem cells present in the umbilical cord 'more transplantable' that could improve the treatment of a wide range of blood diseases in kids and adults.




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Antioxidant-rich Diet Helps Reduce Infection Risk in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

In children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), diet rich in vitamin A, alpha and beta carotene and carotenoids was found to reduce the risk of developing




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Study Reveals How Plants Breathe?

Plants create networks of air channels, the lungs of the leaf to transport carbon dioxide to their cells, said experts led by the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield.




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Living Donor Liver Transplants Offer Better Survival Rates and Costs

Living-donor liver transplants are found to be better than deceased-donor liver transplants. Living-donor transplants have better survival rates and other




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Evolutionary Remnants Seen in Muscles of Human Embryos

250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants were found in muscles of human embryos. Strikingly, some of the atavistic limb muscles muscles, such as the




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Disinfectant Tunnel Devloped By Railways To Combat Covid-19

Disinfection tunnel used to sanitise people for just Rs 10,000 been developed by Indian Railways. A railway ministry official said that the loco




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Economist Intelligence Unit: As the world’s philanthropists boost climate funding, let’s make water a priority

Claudia Sadoff, Director General of IWMI, argues that our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change and address food security could be counterproductive if we don’t pay more attention to water and its use.




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Radical Treatment of Chronic Oral Infection Before Stem Cell Transplantation Not Necessary, Says Study

There is no link between oral infections and the risk of stem cell transplantation patients dying of or getting a serious infection within six months of the procedure, found new study.




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Stem Cell Transplants in Utero: Fresh Insights

A new study in mice has revealed administering stem cell or enzyme therapy in utero paves path to alleviating some congenital diseases that often result in losing a pregnancy.




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New Method Improves Stem Cells to Improve Bone Marrow Transplantation

A novel approach to enhance the potency of blood-forming stem cells, potentially opening the door to a new approach for bone marrow transplantation has been discovered by Mount Sinai researchers.




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Liver Transplants From Older Donors Decrease Despite Improved Outcomes In Recipients

Even though recipients who received liver grafts from older donors (70 and older) had improved outcomes with reduced mortality, graft loss and postoperative




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Use of HCV-Infected Organs Viable for Patients Awaiting Heart Transplants

Nine patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) after receiving lifesaving heart transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease




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Antiviral Therapy Improves Survival Rates for Kidney Transplant Recipients With Hepatitis: Study

Hepatitis B and C viral control was found to improve kidney transplant survival rates, stated study published in the Journal of Hepatology. Renal




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Blood Stem Cells Facilitate Harvest for Transplants

Blood-forming stem cells' stiffness was found to facilitate mobilization procedures used for stem cell-based transplants, said Winship Cancer Institute




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Hepatitis C Infected Organs can be Safely Transplanted: Study

Doctors can safely transplant hepatitis C-infected hearts and lungs into people who are in dire need for a new organ, reports a new study. The findings




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Racial Disparities Exist in Kidney Transplants

Despite a new system designed to reduce inequities, significant racial disparities exist among patients awaiting kidney transplants, finds a new study.




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Five-month-old Girl Becomes the Youngest Indian to Get Liver Transplant

Ariana Dey, a Kolkata-based newborn, has become India's youngest liver transplant patient, says the doctors from Max Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi.




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World's First Baby Born After Robot-assisted Uterus Transplant

First baby boy was born after the technological shift in Gothenburg's world-leading research on uterine transplantation. The boy was 48 centimeters long,




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De Novo Donor-specific Antibodies Linked to Blood Vessels Thickening After Kidney Transplant

After kidney transplant, kids who developed anti-human leukocyte antibodies against their donor kidney, known as de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA)




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New Study Measures Quality of Life After Pediatric Kidney Transplant

Pediatric kidney transplant patients may experience quality-of-life difficulties that underscore the importance of screening transplant recipients for




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Quantitative Biomarker to Test Corneal Cell Quality and Life

Corneal transplantations are old and common. Cornea restoration is now a safe technique because of the advent of colloid physics, a quanititative biomarker is designed.




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New Technique May Eradicate World's Need for Liver Transplants

A new liver cell has been identified, which may eradicate the need of liver transplant in the near future. As there is an alarming rise in need of a liver




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Many Kidneys Discarded in the United States Would be Transplanted in France: Study

French transplant centers are far more likely to transplant kidneys from older donors, revealed new study led by Penn Medicine and Paris Transplant Group.




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Rare Liver Swap Transplant Saves Lives of Doctor, Farmer

55-year-old Mumbai doctor who has liver cancer, and a 36-year-old Kolhapur farmer putting up with end-stage liver failure have successful liver transplants




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Patients Die on Wait List as US Transplant Centers Refuse Donor Kidneys

Transplant centers are declining viable kidneys on behalf of patients whose lives might have been saved by the organs, reports a new study. The findings




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US Pediatric Heart Transplant Waitlist Policy Is Not Working as Planned

The waitlist policy which aimed to protect children lives by giving importance to children anticipating heart transplantation in the U.S has unwanted consequences.




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New Study Aims to Improve Long-Term Lung Transplant Outcomes

New research studies the lung transplant recipients to identify the underlying biologic mechanisms that determine the effectiveness and to improve long-term outcomes of the transplant.




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Variation in Transplant Centers' Use of Less-than-ideal Organs Examined

A tool to assess organ acceptance practices by transplant centers found wide variability in centers' willingness to use less-than-ideal donor kidneys has been developed by researchers.




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Laparoscopic Living Donor Surgery for Liver Transplant

In an adult recipient, the first purely laparoscopic living donor surgery for liver transplantation has been successfully performed by Cleveland Clinic researchers.




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New Treatment Option for Liver Transplant Patients

A drug that treats both asthma and inflammatory bowel disease can also be useful as an anti-organ rejection medication for liver transplant patients.




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India Performs 2nd Largest Number of Transplants in the World

"India performs the second largest number of transplants in the world, next only to USA as per data available on the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation" said Dr.




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Heart Transplantation: New Insights

Death of the number of children who are on the transplantation list waiting for a new heart could potentially be reduced dramatically, reports a new study.




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Heart Transplants From Hepatitis C Donors Safe

Survival rate of patients who received a heart transplant from a donor with hepatitis C to those who received hearts from donors without the disease was similar.




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First-of-its-kind Heart Transplant Performed in New England

Specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently performed the largest number of adult heart transplants in the country using what are known




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Less-than-perfect Kidneys can be Successfully Used for Transplants

Each year, hundreds of deceased donor kidneys are discarded after being deemed not suitable under current medical criteria, can be transplanted safely




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Liver Cells Help Prevent Organ Rejection After Transplant

Mesenchymal stromal cells from liver were found to have immunoregulatory qualities that make them more effective than similar cells derived from adipose,




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Subtle Structural Features in Donated Kidneys Help Predict Transplant Failure Risk

In kidneys from living donors, subtle structural features help predict the risk of transplant failure in recipients, revealed Mayo Clinic researchers.