Good news for the patients suffering from (insulin-dependent) Type 1 Diabetes . As now doctors of Masachusetts has discovered a new way to cure Type I Diabetes by isolating and killing the defective immune system cells that wipe out insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

A recent article in the Journal of American Medical Association, has shown that nearly 26 million American adults are suffering from chronic kidney disease. The number has increased to 13.1 percent between the year 1994 and 2004.

The social networking site is indeed a fun and friendship site for the other. But for Jewel Calibaba it is more than a social site. She is searching for a kidney donor for her husband through the site. She has created her page on the popular social networking website Facebook and appealed for a kidney [...]

Paula MacKinnon and Barbara Ryder, both are women, one is in her middle 30 and the later is nearly double of her age. The former is a Scot and the other is from England. But they are very close to each other as they share a great similarity. Both of them have donated kidney to [...]

According to the researchers from the University Hospital in Basel, female patients receiving the kidney transplants from male donors have the higher risk for rejecting the new kidney than male patients receiving organs from the female donors.

The British Journal The Lancet has reported that a new kidney cancer vaccine called vitespen, failed in last-phase clinical trials to improve the odds of avoiding remission after tumor-removing surgery. Christopher Wood and other of his co researchers of the Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, have tested the vaccine to 409 patients whose [...]

A group of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh find that intensive kidney dialysis does not necessarily promise a better result. It shows that more dialysis does not always improve kidney function or reduce the rate of organ failure. The study comes as a sharp contrast to the earlier researches that [...]

Medical tourism is the latest buzzword in the world of tourism and travel industry. The term defines the practice of traveling across international border in order to avail health care. It includes a wide range of treatment like joint replacement, renal transplantation, cardiac surgery, plastic and cosmetic surgeries. Also the leisure aspects associated [...]

The health department of Philippines is going to introduce a new rule for the donors of the kidney transplant. According to this rule, they will allow to do kidney transplant only if the donor is in blood relation with the foreign recipients.