The news of a pig kidney transplant to a human is an early success in realizing the dream of using animal organs for patients in need of a transplant. Surgeons in New York have successfully transplanted a kidney made from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead patient. The kidney...
Fifty years ago in August 1968, Harvard University introduced a new definition of death based on branches of neural function. Until then, death was the cessation of blood flow (or heart function) and respiration. The report, led by anesthesiologist Henry Beecher, emphasizes that the report aims to redefine death based...
Diabetes (or diabetes) is one of the most common chronic diseases in human societies today. This disease is also called "silent killer". People with the disease are at risk for cardiovascular problems, strokes, kidney failure, and eye diseases (and even blindness) in the long run.Fortunately, by controlling this disease, these...
Numerous field studies indicate an increase in the incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases in our country. About half of people over the age of 50 in our country suffer from high blood pressure. About a quarter of people have some degree of kidney failure. It is estimated that in the...
The Corona epidemic, which began in Wuhan, China in 2019, quickly spread around the world and became a global problem. In the last hundred years, most infectious diseases have been controlled so that chronic diseases have replaced them in causing more deaths. The corona epidemic showed the serious problem of...
The corona epidemic has affected millions of people around the world and caused great loss of life and property. Evidence shows that this phenomenon will not subside any time soon. Some nations have done better than others. There are many reasons for this, but a look through the lens of...
The Corona epidemic has affected millions of people around the world in the past few months, causing extensive human and financial losses. There is no definitive cure for this disease. One way to fight this viral disease is to get vaccinated. In recent weeks, there have been several reports...
Organ transplantation has become an important treatment at a time when chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in humans.Advances in medicine and life sciences have led to an increase in human life expectancy in the last hundred years. As a result, chronic diseases are now the leading cause...
On 11/26/99, an article was published in "Sharq" entitled "When pollens are sold". This article is a report on the sale of kidneys in one of the villages of Herat, Afghanistan. The price of each kidney is between 3,800 and 4,500 dollars, and a hospital in Herat has performed more...
The corona epidemic has been associated with great loss of life and property. Observance of personal and social health and social distance have prevented the spread of the disease to some extent, but these measures have also been accompanied by many financial and psychological damages. Many businesses have closed...
