Aster first in Asia to use new liver transplant techniqueAster DM Healthcare, a leading private healthcare services provider in GCC and an emerging player in India, announced today that it has performed Asia’s first liver transplant using Normothermic Machine Perfusion, a process which can kee More… |
Cleveland Clinic performs UAE’s first full heart transplantPhysicians at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala’s network of healthcare providers and the region’s leading heart care center, have created history by successfully completing the UAE’s first full heart transplant. More… |
Successful kidney transplant at Cleveland Clinic Abu DhabiPhysicians at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi successfully completed a kidney transplant operation in May, taking the hospital another step towards providing full transplant facilities in-line with the recent changes in UAE legislation. More… |
Dubai 'dominates hair transplant field' in MEDubai is well positioned to be one of the best cities in the Middle East to offer the most advanced techniques and solutions in the hair transplant field, according to an expert. Dr Dimitrios Ziakas, general ma More… |
Bahrain health officials warn about organ trade mafiasHealth officials have issued a stark warning about the dangers of medical tourism as growing numbers of Bahrainis look abroad for kidney transplants. Since 1997, when the Health Ministry opened its Yusuf Khalil Almoayyed Nephrolog More… |
Apollo harvests 23 different organs from 5 donorsApollo Hospitals, a leading healthcare service provider in Asia, has harvested 23 different organs from five donors and conducted ten transplants in a day at their flagship hospital on Greams Road, Chennai, India recently. A case More… |
Swede world's first to give birth after womb transplantA Swedish woman has become the world's first to give birth after having a womb transplant, opening up the possibility for thousands of infertile women to have babies, the doctor in charge of the research project said on Saturday. More… |
Lung transplant hope for Bahraini childA Bahraini child suffering from a chronic illness will be flown to India next week to undergo a lung transplant. Nine-year-old Karrar Yaseen Alsari has been suffering from lung cirrhosis since he was two, but his parents have been unabl More… |
Novartis offers new kidney transplant protocolNovartis, a world leader and innovator in developing treatments for nephrology and neurology diseases, has announced a new kidney transplantation protocol that aims to lengthen the life expectancy of a transplanted kidney. The new More… |
Kidney centre achieves transplant centuryThe Kidney Transplant Centre in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Health Services Seha, has achieved a milestone by successfully conducting 100 kidney transplants. Sheikh Khalifa Medical City completed t More… |