Tag: Liver
Brain, testes, ovaries remain off-limits for transplants
PARIS: Since the world's first successful organ transplant in 1954, a kidney, the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could...
Punjab CM directs to complete PKLI project in time
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday directed that work on the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant Institute (PKLI) be expedited and...
Faculty of Pakistan kidney and liver transplant institute calls on Shehbaz...
LAHORE: The faculty members of the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant Institute (PKLTI) called on Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Talking to them, the Punjab Chief...
Your kidneys, liver are safe now: CM Punjab
Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that a state-of-the-art Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute and Research Centre is being set up in the...
Human liver can be kept alive
Human livers have been kept ‘alive’ outside the body using a device designed by British scientists. At the moment, transplant organs are put on...
Aspirin linked to lower risk of liver cancer
Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDS may help prevent serious liver disease including cancer, new study found. Aspirin users were 41 percent...
Early diagnosis, treatment can prevent liver complications: Experts
Prominent gastroenterologists and hepatologists of the country gave their expert views about timely evaluation and treatment of advance liver disease at a daylong symposium...
A tale of two clubs
An Eden Hazard inspired Chelsea currently sit top of the Premier League pile but with only two weeks into the new season, it would...
Vitamen E may lower risks of liver cancer
High consumption of vitamin E either from diet or vitamin supplements may lower the risk of liver cancer, according to a study published in...
Shifa formally opens first liver transplant centre
After performing four successful living donor liver transplants in last six weeks, Shifa International Hospital (SIH) on Saturday formally opened its liver transplant center...
First-ever liver transplant unit inoperative since inception
Pakistan’s first liver transplantation unit, inaugurated by the Punjab Chief Minister on Feb 25, in Shaikh Zaid Hospital (SZH), lack facilities as even...
Indian, Pakistani surgeons perform successful liver transplant
A group of Indian and Pakistani doctors have jointly performed a complicated living donour liver transplant procedure at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital for the...
Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police
A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the...
Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods in India
A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the...
Hospital, govt dept served notices in liver transplantation case
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued notices on Friday to Sheikh Zayed Hospital Lahore and Human Organs Transplant Authority (HOTA) on a petition filed...
‘Liver transplant can be performed as planned surgery’
Living donor liver transplant was the best option for liver transplant patients in Asian countries like Pakistan and India, said HPB Surgery Global Hospital...
Name SZH Liver Transplant Centre after Arsalan: PM
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani directed the Sheikh Zayed Hospital administration to name the liver transplant institute after late Muhammad Arsalan, who donated his...
