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Skin transplants help patients with vitiligo – Oromo Index


Skin transplants help patients with vitiligo
Oromo Index
Transplants of healthy skin cells from elsewhere on the body can alleviate the signs of vitiligo, a disfiguring loss of color in the skin, researchers from ...

Revolutionising kidney transplants – The Hindu


The Hindu

Revolutionising kidney transplants
The Hindu
The cut is deep, moving through the skin, muscle, fat and down to the kidney itself. Using retractors -- curved steel surgical tools with lights on the end, ...

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Homeopathy can save the day for kidney patients – The News International


Homeopathy can save the day for kidney patients
The News International
Kidney transplantation is another option, but only about five per cent patients receive a transplant. The shortage of donors is a universal problem, ...

Barry, Dickens Push for Kidney Donations – Washington Informer


Washington Informer

Barry, Dickens Push for Kidney Donations
Washington Informer
... the decision to have a transplant. He said that the dialysis affected him physically, with paling skin and a lack of energy to perform everyday tasks. ...

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What families should know concerning organ donorship – Alexandria Town Talk


What families should know concerning organ donorship
Alexandria Town Talk
The recovered tissues are used in the transplantation of heart valves, bone, veins, skin and soft connective tissues, such as tendons and ligaments. ...

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Religion has role in organ donation – Chicago Daily Herald


Religion has role in organ donation
Chicago Daily Herald
Thousands more are in need of tissue transplants such as corneas, bone, skin, and heart valves. Some people feel they are too old to become donors or their ...

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Reg Green: Organ donations keep Nicholas Green ‘alive’ 15 years … – Daily Mail – Charleston


Reg Green: Organ donations keep Nicholas Green 'alive' 15 years ...
Daily Mail - Charleston
There also have been millions of tissue transplants - corneas that restore sight, skin that heals burns, bone that straightens spines. ...

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Ex-county man ready to go home after double-hand transplant – Lancaster Newspapers


Lancaster Newspapers

Ex-county man ready to go home after double-hand transplant
Lancaster Newspapers
But after the double hand transplant, Kepner had to start over again. He had a few setbacks, such as some soreness in his one leg where surgeons took a skin ...

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During ICU stay, a crash course on organ donation – Times of India


During ICU stay, a crash course on organ donation
Times of India
... Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "Under the new amendments, besides vital organs, even tissues like skin, bones and tendons can be donated and transplanted. ...
Doctors to get 10 years jail for illegal organ tradeSify
Govt comes up with stricter punishment for illegal organ tradeTopNews

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Laparoscopy takes pain out of kidney donation – Times of India


Laparoscopy takes pain out of kidney donation
Times of India
"Laparoscopy is a procedure in which we make three pin holes from the skin towards the kidney area. A camera is inserted, so we see the insides magnified on ...

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