Following a month-long investigation into a case involving the trafficking of five individuals for the purpose of donating kidneys in Thailand, police have two in custody. Yem Asisal and her stepfather, Nhem Phally, were apprehended on Tuesday at their home in Phnom Penh after five of their victims filed complaints, according to the chief of [...]
The results from an eight-year study conducted by researchers from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute shed light on a potential cure for sickle cell anemia in adults. The study was conducted at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, [...]
By Marc Beuttler The difficulty with organ transplantation is that as soon as an organ is removed from the body, the individual cells that compose it begin to die. This limits how far organs can be transported and which organs can be transplanted, resulting in less overall organs available locally to help people in dire [...]
By Caroline Song Medical Xpress, a web-based medical and health news service has recently published an article titled “Stem cell transplantation for severe sclerosis associated with long-term survival” on June 24, 2014. The article reviews a study published in the June 25, 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA. The [...]
By Noushaba T. Rashid Would you trust someone with your limbs and face? Just donating your kidney or liver is something of the past. Now you could donate your hands or your face. How? Why? Becoming an organ donor may mean more than just donating your internal organs. Checking the box on your driver’s license [...]
By Marc Beuttler When people sign up to become organ donors (usually while obtaining a new driver’s license) they also agree to donate bones, cartilage and other tissues that can be transplanted much like organs. While most organ donors don’t realize that they have signed up to be bone and cartilage donors or that it’s [...]
Since the first successful surgery in 2006, face transplant procedures have become more standardized and better understood. In fact, they are now “currently feasible” for children; this new possibility has spurred an ethical dialogue among Canadian physicians. The procedure has the potential to radically transform the lives of children who suffer from devastating facial deformities [...]
By Marc Beuttler In a presentation to the UN Human Rights Council, the outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, highlighted the lack of adequate knowledge of human trafficking for removal of organs. Human trafficking is a vast and dirty industry that generates more than $51 billion dollars annually. This large [...]
By Abrigul Lutfalieva A kidney racket has been busted in Visakhapatnam and the Director of the hospital has been arrested in connection with the case. The Odisha Police arrested Seven Hills Hospitals Director Dr. N. Prabhakar Babu after his hospital allegedly carried out a kidney transplant without following rules. However, the police were not able [...]
By Noushaba T. Rashid Elena Cattaneo and Gilberto Corbellini are working hard to protect patients from fraudulent stem-cell therapies. Recently in Italy, clinical standards were threatened and the healthcare system and patients wanted to fight for evidence based medicine. The Stamina Foundation is a private organization, which was founded in Italy in 2009. They claim [...]
