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'Mummy is waiting for a sparkly heart' Cliona Marley

Lying in a bed in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, Clíona Marley wondered how to explain to her eldest child that she wouldn't be home for a while. The mother-of-three was hoping and waiting for a heart transplant and four-year-old Féile was asking every ...

22 Apr 2022 at 19:33

Transplant breakthrough could ‘teach’ a patient’s body to accept new organs

A new transplant therapy could potentially help patients avoid the need for life-long anti-rejection drugs, a new study suggests. Scientists have developed a new technique which involves transplant patients receiving a pioneering therapy made by ...

11 Oct 2023 at 19:00

Couple put child organ donation ‘in the spotlight’ with 230 handmade dolls

Parents of a three-year-old waiting for a multi-organ transplant have created a campaign to place 230 dolls in children’s hospitals around the country, representing more than 230 UK children awaiting organ donation. The handmade dolls, which ...

21 Nov 2023 at 02:05

Scotland

Public health minister urges Scots to register organ donor status

Scots are being urged to make their decision on organ and tissue donation known as new statistics have been revealed. With Organ and Tissue Donation Week under way, anyone who has not explicitly said whether or not they wish to donate their ...

18 Sept 2023 at 00:01

World first as human liver kept for three days successfully transplanted – study

In a world first, a damaged human liver has been treated and preserved in a machine for three days before being successfully transplanted into a patient, researchers say. The man quickly recovered his quality of life without any signs of ...

31 May 2022 at 17:00

Stormont parties urge NI Secretary to help enact organ donation law

The five largest parties at Stormont have written to the Northern Ireland Secretary urging him to intervene to process a new organ donation law. The opt-out system was passed by MLAs at Stormont last year but the enacting of the ...

19 Jan 2023 at 18:40

World

Woman becomes longest living survivor after pig organ transplant

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone on Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney, ...

25 Jan 2025 at 14:49

Health

Dad with ‘silent killer’ disease who had double organ transplant during Covid says it was like ‘sci-fi horror film’

A father who underwent a life-saving double organ transplant during the Covid-19 pandemic which felt like a “sci-fi horror film” as surgeons wore hazmat suits and oxygen masks has said he is excited to “participate in life ...

29 Sept 2023 at 12:53

‘UK’s most prolific blood donor’ urges public to ‘help society’

One of the country’s most prolific blood donors has urged people to donate blood and “help society”. Peter Randle started giving blood when he was 18 when he was at university. The 69-year-old grandfather from Coventry ...

06 Oct 2025 at 00:01

Pig’s liver transplanted to human in world first

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year after the procedure. The man’s own liver had irreversible scarring caused by a hepatitis ...

09 Oct 2025 at 05:01

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