Rome, Sep 6 (IANS/AKI) Surgeons at the Vatican children's hospital in Rome have carried out a pioneering operation in which a Lebanese woman's kidney and part of her liver were transplanted in her 30-month-old son, who suffers from a rare metabolic disorder.

Being deprived of sleep for just six hours or a single night may affect the liver's ability to produce glucose and process insulin, increasing the risk of metabolic diseases such as fatty liver and Type-2 diabetes, warns a study.

Two kidneys and the liver of a 58-year-old brain-dead person from the city were donated to three patients admitted in two separate hospitals in the city on Thursday, the hospital authorities said.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), hepatitis is one of the widely-recognised public health diseases in India, and liver diseases are the 10th most common cause of death in the country.

A three-year-old baby Hadia Nesari from Afghanistan has been given a new lease of life by a team of Indian and Pakistani doctors here. The baby suffered from chronic liver disease.

After several misdiagnosis and other dilemmas, 10 years ago I was diagnosed with a very rare disease, hardly known in India, called VHL or Von Hippel Lindau, during my landmark liver transplant.

Infections of hepatitis C are 83 per cent more prevalent among people living in north India, says a report from SRL Diagnostics.

A Spanish judge on Friday directed the ex-president of football club Barcelona Sandro Rossell to appear in court over the alleged laundering of money embezzled from Brazil's football federation and fixed the bail amount at 78.6 million euros ($91 million).

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Do you keep yourself aside from drinking baking soda? If so, then don’t you ever dare to do so! A daily dose of baking soda reduces the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say. There are some evidences of how the inexpensive antacid can encourage our spleen to promote instead an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic in the face of inflammatory disease, scientists report.