March 24, 2021

AUSTRALIA: Funnel-web spider venom may one day help save the lives of heart transplant patients

Striding along a sandy track, a group of scientists is doing something kids are warned not to do: looking for funnel-web spiders. Leading the pack, known as the "bugs-and-drugs squad", is

March 24, 2021

CANADA: March is Kidney month but it’s so much more than that

By Stan Ashbee on March 10, 2021. March is Kidney Month and Mar. 11 is World Kidney Day. As a kidney patient, Jan Clemis was diagnosed over 40 years ago with kidney

March 19, 2021

DUBAI: Rela Hospital Sets New Global Benchmark in Liver Transplant Patient Survival Rate

DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Rela Hospital, a Multi-Speciality Quaternary Care Hospital at Chromepet, Chennai, has accomplished a truly remarkable global milestone of achieving 99.2% patient survival rate

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March 2, 2021

UK: Heart transplant breakthrough: NHS doctors become first in world to complete transplants in children using organs brought back to life by a machine (VIDEO)

The technique has saved the lives of six British youngsters and the transplants have all happened during the coronavirus pandemic. A 14-year-old girl has told Sky News she feels "blessed to

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March 2, 2021

SPAIN: Málaga Province Among Highest Organ Donors In All Of Spain

Málaga Province Among Highest Percentage Of Organ Donors In Spain. image: istockphotos MÁLAGA Province Among The Highest Percentage Of Organ Donors In All Of Spain Yesterday, Saturday 27, was ‘National Transplant Day’ in

February 25, 2021

INDIA: ‘Kidney transplant from recovered coronavirus patients safe’ | Ahmedabad News

AHMEDABAD: Can potential kidney donors continue with the process if they contract Covid-19 infection? What are the chances of viral infection spread in the recipient even though the donor has

February 21, 2021

CANADA: Record year for lung, heart transplants in B.C.

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – When Beth Miller received a call last summer that she would finally be getting a desperately needed lung transplant, she was overjoyed. “I was just getting ready

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February 20, 2021

TURKEY: Complication in Turkey’s quadruple limb transplant

Turkish surgeons had to remove one leg from a patient who underwent a quadruple limb transplant after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb, the hospital said

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February 13, 2021

UK: Family of the world’s longest surviving heart and lung transplant patient reflect on her life

Kay Burnett died last month at the age of 71, having had heart, lung and kidney transplants. She had 34 years added to her life after getting a second set of

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February 13, 2021

Donor found for girl, 12, who needs life-saving bone marrow transplant to survive

A follow up on a previously posted story: A schoolgirl suffering from a rare and deadly disease who desperately needs a life-saving transplant has found a donor. Libby Cotts, 12, has

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