Transplant

Kidney scam: Evidence shows nexus between Hiranandani doctors and racketeers

According to the charge sheet filed by the Powai Police, the police seized three letters from Nilesh Kamble, one of the accused and organ transplant co-ordinator for the hospital, which gave approvals for the transplants.

World Heart Day: Poor infrastructure, superstition continue to keep Indians away from donation

Lack of infrastructure, logistical constraints, and myths and stigma attached to organ donation are the major hurdles keeping the rate of heart transplant in India at an "abysmal low" vis-a-vis in the west, according to health experts.

Isabelle Dinoire, world's first face transplant patient, dies at 49

Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant, has died more than a decade after a complex and daring operation that set the stage for dozens of similar transplants worldwide.

Kidney sale racket: Delhi cops arrest three donors

The gang used forged documents to pretend that the donors were relatives of the recipients of the kidney transplant in order to undergo the operations.

China to stop using organs of executed prisoners for transplants

China, the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, plans to end the controversial practice from next month.