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A baby who underwent a record eight organ transplants has died a month after returning home.
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.
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At least 49 people have died in Leicester hospitals over the last eight months from a superbug, it is revealed.
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Italian doctors mistakenly transplanted organs from an HIV-positive donor into three recipients, the head of a Florence hospital said on Tuesday.
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A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.
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BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions Tuesday on organ transplants for foreigners , saying Chinese citizens should get priority when organs become available.
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At least 78 people died from suffocation while being transported in overcrowded military trucks after a violent demonstration in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south, government officials said today.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A man who lived more than five months with an artificial heart has died of multiple organ failure, the heart manufacturer said today.
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Salim was one of the last victims in an organ transplant racket that police believe sold up to 500 kidneys to clients who traveled to India from around the world over the past nine years.
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants in Scotland.
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In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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Doctors and patients have overcome huge medical hurdles in liver transplantation, but they still face an ethical abyss, created largely by organ shortages.
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Over two years ago, the case of a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of media attention. According to a report published this month, fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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HALIFAX - Surgeons are transplanting fewer hearts in Canada, especially among babies and children, because there aren&#39;t enough donor organs available, according to a new report.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.