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Angelina Jolie might need a liver transplant
The Californian actress Angelina Jolie, could be suffering serious health problems as a result, according to In Touch magazine, that might have exacerbated the disease hepatitis C was diagnosed in 2007.Turns out,... Heart in a box
Got a live one. Here’s a macabre story, though a life saver. I always thought it was weird to see Styrofoam ice chests sitting outside a surgery room, or being carried around a hospital. I suspected often the... Transplant Research Breakthrough: Pig Lungs In Humans By 2015
Pig lung transplants in humans could to take place as soon as 2015 after a breakthrough in transplant research. While studies in relation to transplanting pigs' lungs in humans ended two years ago, a new discovery...
created by amyellensoden | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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731 views | 26 recommendations | 4 comments
Cab Driver Gives Passenger A Kidney
Rita Van Loenen, a central Arizona woman, had no idea that a ride in Thomas Chappell's cab would save her life, as the driver offered her a matching kidney. Before this blessed encounter, Van Loenen had already undergone a kidney transplant from her cousin, but was... The NHS surgeons who saved 15 lives in record-breaking transplant
" Surgeons are celebrating a European first with five lifesaving transplant operations from two donors in 24 hours. In a stunning display of teamwork, NHS doctors and nurses gave hope to three seriously-ill...
created by Babel-Fish | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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256 views | 36 recommendations | 2 comments
Connie Culp first face transplant patient reveals herself
..."Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the... Pittsburgh man receives first US double hand transplant
A Pittsburgh man is recovering in hospital after receiving the first ever US double hand transplant. The 57-year-old is currently stable, and lost both of his hands to a bacterial infection."In March, the hospital performed its first hand transplant on a Marine who lost his... Use aborted foetus organs in transplants, urges scientist
An Oxford University stem cell expert, Professor Sir Richard Gardner, has suggested using the "kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses" to be given to patients in need of a kidney transplant or liver transplant. " Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be... Can we really transplant a human soul?
" Written by Danny Penman The progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures. So it has proved with heart transplants, which have... Nation's First Face Transplant Done in Cleveland
Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow of Cleveland Clinic has just finished the nation's first near-total face transplant - 80% of the patient's face - with that of a dead female donor. The first partial face...
created by Mary Richard | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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443 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
U.S. teen lives 118 days without heart
It is truly said God chooses doctor to show his miracle, and this is the perfect case of Divine intervention.118 days on alternative system and still healthy is nothing but miracle."An American teen-ager survived... Windpipe transplant breakthrough - Stem Cell Therepy to treat serious diseases
In a breakthrough scientists in Spain have used adult stem cells from the recepient of an organ transplant to trick the body into accepting the donated organ without the use of anti-rejection drugs. Under normal surgical procedured involving organ transplantation involving a... Organ donor change shelved
Gordon Brown has shelved plans to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation in the UK despite announcing earlier that he was in favour of trying out the scheme. He has however kept the door open to revisit the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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138 views | 25 recommendations | 0 comments
Ovary transplant "Miracle Baby"
A German woman who gave birth after receiving the world's first whole ovary transplant has described her newborn baby daughter as "a little miracle". "Maja, appropriately named after the Roman goddess of...
created by Mary Richard | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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211 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
OPINION... Stem Cell Research NOW
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