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Bahrain alerts on transplants abroadSix Bahrainis with kidney problems have suffered serious complications after undergoing transplant surgeries this year, sparking a warning for people to avoid treatment abroad. Health officials say the overseas transplant industry poses a More… |
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Finding donors for transplants ‘easier now’Identifying a suitable donor for leukemia and lymphoma patients who need bone marrow transplants may be far easier now, according to scientists at the John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Two clinical trials showed transplant results with ha More… |
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Spanish hospital does 1st full-face transplantA hospital in Barcelona said it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. The operation was carried out by a 30-memb More… |
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Lifeline for kidney patients in BahrainKidney patients in Bahrain could get a new lifeline, with moves to allow transplants from non-related, living donors. A 'life or death' panel is being set up by the Health Ministry, to decide if such transplants, case-by-case, shou More… |
Bahrain to build $23m organ transplant centreBahrain is to get its own BD9 million ($23.8 million) organ transplant centre. Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has approved the project in principle, said a report in our sister publication Gulf Daily News. The More… |
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Living organ donors risk lives to save othersWhile other teenagers were celebrating their high-school graduation, 18-year-old James Chan was in hospital donating most of his liver to his father. 'I didn't give it a second thought. It was just something I had to do because my sister w More… |
