Archive for the 'Transplant' Category

BC Woman Takes The Help Of Social Site To Find Kidney Donor For Her Husband

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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 [...]

Women Donated Kidney To Strangers

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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 [...]

Gender Matching - An Important Factor In Kidney Tranplantation

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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.

Kidney Transplantation In Kolkata: An Overview

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Commercial Kidney Transplant Banned For Foreigners in Philippines

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

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.