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Kidney transplants plummeted during pandemic, figures show

The number of kidney transplants fell significantly last year, new figures show. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that there was a dramatic 32% fall in kidney transplants last year compared to pre-pandemic. Almost 4,600 people are currently ...

10 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Kidneys from genetically modified pig transplanted into brain-dead human

In a world first, two kidneys from a genetically modified pig have been transplanted into the body of a brain-dead human – an achievement hailed as a “game-changing moment in the history of medicine”. The process shows the procedure may be ...

20 Jan 2022 at 17:25

Kidneys from genetically modified pig transplanted into brain dead human

In a world first, two kidneys from a genetically modified pig have been transplanted into the body of a brain dead human – an achievement hailed as a “game-changing moment in the history of medicine”. The process shows the procedure may ...

20 Jan 2022 at 13:25

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Tipperary sportswoman to represent Ireland at her fourth Euro Transplant Games

Tipperary’s Sheila Gregan along with fellow transplant and dialysis athletes from Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Clare and Roscommon will participate in the European Transplant and Dialysis Games to be held in England from ...

16 Aug 2022 at 14:33

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Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, ...

22 Aug 2022 at 15:30

Donors from Carlow wanted for human milk bank as Minister makes appeal

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Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed from Carlow and across Ireland for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South ...

22 Aug 2022 at 20:33

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Well done: Tipperary athlete brings back bronze from European Transplant Games

Tipperary transplant athlete Sheila Gregan arrived back from this month’s European Transplant Games in the UK sporting a bronze medal she won in the 100m breaststroke. Sheila, who works for Ulster Bank in Nenagh, has been ...

30 Aug 2022 at 19:33

Thousands of donors come forward to ease blood shortage

Thousands of people offered to donate blood in response to an amber alert over critically low stocks, NHS Blood and Transplant has said. Most appointments to donate blood this week are now fully booked, although the NHS ...

13 Oct 2022 at 15:59

NHS makes ‘urgent’ call for black blood donors

The NHS has issued an urgent call for more black blood donors. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that a record level of blood donations are now needed every day to treat people with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

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Nenagh woman to represent Ireland at World Transplant Games in Australia

Tipperary will be represented at the World Transplant Games as Nenagh's Sheila Gregan is set to travel down under to Australia to compete this year. Gregan, a kidney transplant recipient from Nenagh, will participate ...

13 Mar 2023 at 15:33

Sisters look forward to ‘normal’ festive season after heart transplant ops

Two sisters who both had heart transplants are looking forward to celebrating their first normal festive season in years after making full recoveries. Allison Kerr and Karen Owens were diagnosed with the genetic ...

23 Dec 2022 at 00:01

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 ...

06 Feb 2023 at 17:39

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