September 20, 2021

UK: Double-lung transplant survivor celebrates ten year anniversary with ten fundraisers

Every day of the last ten years has been a blessing for Sophie Clarke. She was just 17 when she became one of Britain's youngest double-lung transplant recipients after doctors gave

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Bone Marrow Transplants

September 15, 2021

SOUTH AFRICA: Please help save my daughter’s life

Durban - Zesuliwe Mazubane is always smiling and loves to set up her board to teach the younger children ‒ and at only 13 years old, she also urgently needs

September 15, 2021

AUSTRALIA: Mum turns down life-saving kidney transplant from her husband so it can go to their young daughter

A selfless mother has turned down a life-saving kidney donation from her husband so it can be given to their two-year-old daughter as she battles the same rare genetic disease. Bec

September 15, 2021

KENYA: Hospital marks 151st kidney transplant

Kenyans can now easily access kidney transplant surgery locally at a more affordable cost as compared to going abroad for similar treatment. Mediheal Group of Hospitals Chief Kidney Transplant Surgeon Dr.

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September 14, 2021

UK: Ely man’s life saved by kidney transplant

An Ely man who was born with one kidney and an undiagnosed heart problem was among 389 East Anglian people to receive a life-saving organ transplant last year - despite the challenges that

September 8, 2021

CANADA: ‘I feel bad for the lake honestly,’ liver transplant athlete trains for swim across Lake Ontario (VIDEO)

LONDON, ONT. -- After winning gold medals and breaking records at the World Transplant Games, transplant athlete Jillian Best is ready for her next big challenge, swimming across Lake Ontario. "This will

September 2, 2021

UK: Boy, eight, needed kidney transplant after catching E.coli ‘during country walk’

An eight-year-old boy needed lifesaving surgery after he and his brother caught E.coli - which their parents believe may have been from a countryside walk in the Highlands. Leo McFaulds needed

August 25, 2021

JAPAN: World’s First Lung Tissue Transplant From Living Donors to COVID-19 Patient

Doctors in Japan have performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a COVID-19 patient. On Thursday, Kyoto University Hospital announced that a woman from Kansai in

August 22, 2021

SPAIN: Two-month-old girl saved by pioneering heart transplant, Europe News & Top Stories

MADRID • The life of a two-month-old Spanish girl was saved by pioneering surgery when doctors transplanted a small heart that had stopped beating from a donor with a different

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August 22, 2021

CANADA: Looking back at landmark Calgary kidney transplant 10 years later – Calgary

She affectionately calls it lefty. Lauren Herschel often wonders about who got the left kidney she donated to a stranger. Ten years ago, she became Calgary’s first anonymous living kidney donor. “My dad

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