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Transplant
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Last year
2023
Transplant
Woman receives UK’s first womb transplant after her sister acts as living donor
23 Aug 2023
16.5k
22
animal-human transplant
Pig kidney still functioning in human patient more than a month after transplant
16 Aug 2023
17.0k
13
All time
Medical first
US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
10 Jan 2022
42.8k
62
Coronavirus
Covid-19 patient in Japan receives world’s first lung transplant from living donors
9 Apr 2021
16.1k
7
Gift of Life
'It gave me back my life': Transplant patient urges people to talk to their families about organ donation wishes
21 Dec 2020
14.0k
10
everyday hero
'I said, 'Look, I'm not going to let my mother go through that pain again of losing another child''
Updated 31 May 2019
35.0k
4
Budd Chiari Syndrome
'She is a true warrior': Campaign to raise funds for Irish woman who needs transplant in UK
12 Apr 2019
31.8k
0
remission
London patient becomes second man to be cleared of Aids virus
5 Mar 2019
28.4k
31
Cystic Fibrosis
'I was studying to be a fitness coach when I needed a double lung transplant'
6 Jan 2019
14.2k
2
Breakthrough
First baby born via uterus transplanted from dead donor
5 Dec 2018
17.2k
13
Soldier
World's first total penis and scrotum transplant takes place in US
24 Apr 2018
37.7k
61
Organ Donation
Michael has had three transplants and is helping other patients come to terms with kidney failure
13 Jan 2018
16.5k
8
Transplant
Watch: 'I'm still the same kid - just instead of having no hands, I have two'
19 Jul 2017
13.1k
7
medical history
Double hand transplant success: 'The boy wanted to climb monkey bars and grip a baseball bat'
19 Jul 2017
16.5k
7
Gift of Life
'A woman has our daughter's lungs and four boys have the rest of her organs'
9 May 2017
17.5k
5
Organ Donation
'After the transplant, I looked in the mirror and my eyes weren’t yellow anymore, they were white'
3 Apr 2017
20.0k
10
Organ Donation
'Helen didn’t have a peaceful death, she wanted to live so much'
2 Apr 2017
37.4k
14
Organ Donation
'A profound act of kindness': Doctor donates kidney to colleague
1 Apr 2017
24.3k
10
Scientists
'Organs could be grown in pigs for transplants': Scientists eye breakthrough
28 Jan 2017
8.7k
14
Voices
A living kidney donor writes: 'We need to encourage more donors – living or deceased'
Enda Fanning
13 Jan 2017
7.1k
52
Transplant
Dozens of Indians call hospital to donate kidneys to foreign minister
18 Nov 2016
11.1k
9
Voices
'I only had six hours to live if I didn’t start pulling through'
Stephen Lott
3 Apr 2016
330
4
most extreme
'It isn’t like Face/Off': The surgeon who performed this extreme face transplant explains how he did it
29 Nov 2015
19.9k
5
saviour
Roscommon man who died tragically preparing for his mother's funeral saved two lives with his organs
27 Oct 2015
38.8k
13
Health Service
'I’m afraid that by the time they sort this out, I'll be too weak for a transplant'
30 Jul 2015
17.2k
16
Voices
'Beaumont Hospital chiefs are playing Russian roulette with my life'
Ciara Kelly
2 Jul 2015
396
51
noggin
This man has just had the world's first skull transplant
5 Jun 2015
10.2k
9
mad world
This woman just met the man who took her brother's face
28 May 2015
33.4k
16
Mater Hospital
"If I hadn’t been given that heart my daughters would have never been born"
21 May 2015
8.6k
2
organ harvest
Gangster in Spain arrested for trying to buy immigrant's kidney
18 May 2015
21.2k
45
organ donor week
'Me and my wife took part in a kidney swap arrangement and I would do it again'
2 Apr 2015
20.1k
14
Donor Card
'Everyday I pray for that special person who saved my life'
31 Mar 2015
9.4k
7
Transplant
Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver
13 Mar 2015
13.4k
18
The Daily Poll
Poll: Would you donate your bone marrow to someone you don't know?
16 Dec 2014
9.1k
67
how to save a life
Over 100 people in one day offered to give this Irish army officer their bone marrow
16 Dec 2014
9.7k
17
Cystic Fibrosis
'Luke's Christmas wish is that his mammy gets new lungs'
23 Nov 2014
27.3k
28
World First
Transplants using 'dead hearts' have been performed in Australia
25 Oct 2014
12.8k
10
Blindness
'Exciting step forward' as human embryo stem cell transplant restores sight in patients
15 Oct 2014
5.6k
4
Medical Marvel
Woman who received controversial womb transplant gives birth to baby boy
4 Oct 2014
12.6k
29
breaking ground
Research conducted by Irish scientists could mean the end of organ donors
28 Aug 2014
11.2k
15
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