UNOS to oversee hand, face transplants like organs
January 1, 2014 - 12:00am
Sure your liver or kidney could save someone’s life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an organ donor may get more complicated than just checking a box on your driver’s...
Cebu News
Would organ donors also give hands, face? UNOS to set policies for new transplants
By
Lauran Neergaard
| December 28, 2013 - 5:00am
Sure your liver or kidney could save someone's life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an...
Health And Family
Drug tackles new challenges in kidney, liver transplants
December 5, 2013 - 12:00am
A paradigm shift in kidney transplantation in the last decade has shifted the focus from preventing acute organ rejection to preventing chronic graft (transplanted kidney) dysfunction and mortality in transplant...
Science and Environment
Mend Me on Solar News TV
August 1, 2013 - 12:00am
Now that transplant surgery has reached new heights and continues to develop, we look back at the extraordinary journey doctors and patients have to go through to achieve breakthroughs not just in transplant alone...
Entertainment
Poland's first face transplant patient goes home
By
Monika Scislowska
| July 31, 2013 - 4:15am
Poland's first face transplant patient was discharged from the hospital yesterday, speaking with some effort at a press conference...
World
Kidney transplant patients can live normal and functional lives
July 11, 2013 - 12:00am
Lenycia Torrecampo Gimeno has known for most of her life that she had a kidney problem.
Science and Environment
The Medical City performs 3rd liver transplant in girl with rare condition
April 18, 2013 - 12:00am
The Medical City recently performed its third liver transplant in a pediatric patient, five-year-old Marilda Agcaoile Guzman, who suffered from end-stage liver disease and a rare congenital condition called Situs...
Science and Environment
5-organ transplant patient gives birth: baby girl
March 14, 2013 - 1:25pm
A woman whose doctors believe is the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient to deliver a baby said Wednesday...
Health And Family
NKTI marks 30th founding anniversary, transplant week
February 21, 2013 - 12:00am
Last Monday, the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) kicked off its 30th founding anniversary and transplant week with a Mass and commemoration ceremony attended by several of its founding doctors, medical...
Science and Environment
Kidney transplant now possible under Philhealth Z package
January 29, 2013 - 12:00am
A more meaningful new year awaits Herminia Terne, 53-year-old mother from Lapu-Lapu City, after several people and organizations worked hard together to reach a common goal that would benefit not only one person...
Health And Family
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