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Fishy stink driving residents mad
RESIDENTS in Bandar Botanik in Klang, Selangor are fed up with the bad smell caused by dead fish floating in a man-made lake there, reported Makkal Osai.
First kidney transplant between HIV-positive people
A HIV-positive woman donated one of her kidneys to another patient with HIV in a world’s first for kidney transplants, performed by American surgeons in late March 2019.
This ain't Face/Off, it's the latest in face transplant surgery
A California man, who shot himself through the chin, unveils his new face after undergoing the most advanced face transplant surgery ever.
Prolonging liver viability for donation
Donated livers are already in short supply and some have to be rejected because they have been too long out of the body; this method could change that.
Silent Mentors’ donate their bodies to medical science
The Silent Mentor programme, introduced by Professor Dr Chin Kin Fah, on March 23, 2012, encourages donors to donate their bodies after death. Donors have selflessly donated their bodies for the advancement of medical research, education and training, motivated by love for mankind.
Donor cards show speeding Estonians risks of the road
PARNU, Estonia (Reuters) - - Traffic police in Estonia are hoping to stop speeding drivers in their tracks by handing them organ donor cards as well as fines.
Man grateful to 12-year-old son’s liver donor
GEORGE TOWN: Besides thanking donors and well-wishers, goldsmith Chong Keat Yong is particularly grateful to the organ donor who gave his 12-year-old son a second chance in life.
Chinese patients get organ transplants from Greek-Egyptian donor who died on business trip
Man who died of brain haemorrhage is only the 10th foreigner to make multiple organ donations in China, which faces a dire shortage
Illegal kidney transplant dilemma
PETALING JAYA: Owing to the lack of organs for transplant in the country, a 59-year-old kidney failure patient forked out close to half a million ringgit to fly to another country to have an illegal kidney transplant done.
Health Ministry: ‘Opt out’ system not an option
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has yet to change to the “opt out” system – whereby everyone is deemed an organ donor unless they say no – because the public is just not ready, says the Health Ministry.
