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Powerful Nigerian politician on trial over alleged organ-harvesting plot

A senior Nigerian politician plotted to transport a poor street trader to the UK to donate a kidney to his daughter in exchange for up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, allegedly conspired with family ...

06 Feb 2023 at 17:39

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Longford's JILLIAN tells of transplant joy

Three years is a long time in most people's book, but for cystic fibrosis campaigner Jillian McNulty it has seemed a nigh on eternity. It's a period in time the Longford native has spent large swathes of confined to hospital on dialysis while ...

18 Sept 2022 at 11:33

Derry News

Derry family hosting Coffee Morning to raise vital funds for Altnagelvin Hospital Renal Unit

Andy and Elma Deans are hosting a coffee morning at their home tomorrow (Saturday April 15) between 9am and 2pm to raise vital funds. All the money raised will be donated to the Renal Unit at Altnagelvin Hospital where their son is currently ...

14 Apr 2023 at 16:33

Quadruple amputee ‘indebted’ to a donor for second time after kidney transplant

A quadruple amputee who became the first Scot to receive a double hand transplant has said she is “absolutely indebted” to a donor for the second time in her life after receiving a new kidney. Cor Hutton was given a 5% chance of survival ...

19 Dec 2024 at 16:57

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Tipperary boy has Christmas 'miracle' after receiving a new kidney

Nine-year-old Finn O’Shea is about to celebrate his own Christmas miracle after getting his dream present – a kidney transplant. It will be the first Christmas in years that Finn, from Clonmel, will be free from having to hook up to a ...

15 Dec 2023 at 17:33

Northern Ireland

Siblings make life-changing organ donations to their sisters

Two sisters from Co Down have described how their lives have been transformed after receiving a kidney each from their siblings. Diane Chillingworth and Michelle Linden both found out in 2020, just two weeks apart, that they needed a ...

18 Sept 2023 at 20:56

Local News

Leitrim transplant recipient leads heartfelt donor memorial

The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) held its 39th Annual Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving this year, featuring a special local connection. Cathriona Charles, a kidney transplant recipient from Gortfadda, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, ...

22 Oct 2024 at 09:33

Pig kidneys demonstrate ‘life-sustaining kidney function’ in a human – study

Kidneys from pigs provided “life-sustaining kidney function” after being transplanted into a brain-dead patient, researchers have found. Kidneys were first transplanted from a genetically modified pig to a human in 2022, and ...

16 Aug 2023 at 16:00

World

US surgeons transplant pig kidney into patient

Doctors in the US have announced they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said it is the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been ...

21 Mar 2024 at 15:12

Major advance in transplants as monkey survives two years with pig kidney

A monkey has survived for more than two years after receiving a pig kidney transplant in an “unprecedented” study, scientists have said. Researchers said the finding offers hope for the potential of long-term use of ...

11 Oct 2023 at 16:00

‘Waiting for a kidney during the pandemic made life so much harder’

A 23-year old student has said that waiting for a kidney transplant during the pandemic made life “so much harder”. Alisha Gokani, from Kent, is one of 4,658 patients in the UK waiting for a kidney transplant and ...

10 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Kidney transplant patients to get ‘double matched blood’ to avoid rejection

Scientists are to double match blood intended for use for kidney transplant patients in a bid to make sure their donated kidney is less likely to be rejected. As well as ensuring that blood is matched by type, ...

10 Apr 2024 at 00:01

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