Thousands to benefit from ovary transplants
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Thousands of British women left infertile after cancer treatment have been given new hope by the world&#39;s first birth of a baby following an ovarian transplant.
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Last year saw a 3% increase in the number of transplant operations that took place in the UK in 2002, according to the health department.
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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.
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A woman with cancer has had her fertility preserved thanks to doctors who transplanted her ovary into her arm.
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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(LUMBER BRIDGE, North Carolina)-- About 3,000 North Carolinians are on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. More than half of those are in need of a kidney.
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More than 100,000 women with breast cancer were offered new hope yesterday by research hailed as the biggest advance in treatment of the disease for 30 years.
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A CANCER sufferer has stayed fertile after doctors transplanted one of her ovaries into her arm. The 29-year-old was diagnosed with cervical cancer and needed radiotherapy to cure her.
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Cancer patients should be offered free fertility treatment on the NHS to enable them to store frozen sperm or eggs and have children one day in the future, leading medical institutions say today
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An Australian teenage girl has become the world's first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, doctors said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle."
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Â· Medical chief urges new donor schemeÂ· Observer launches reform campaign
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NEW YORK  - A woman undergoing treatment  for cervical cancer had one of her healthy ovaries successfully  transplanted into her upper arm, in order to maintain hormonal  function, a Dutch team reports.
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The British government on Wednesday approved plans to allow women to donate eggs for stem cell and cloning research &#151; and said they will also be entitled to compensation for costs incurred.
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Cell transplants for type 1 diabetes, which hold hope of a cure, to be made available at specialist centres.
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A woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a live baby following an ovarian transplant in a breakthrough that could allow doctors to reverse the menopause and restore fertility to women in middle age.
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&quot;It is a dream&quot; said Ouarda Touirat, smiling at the cameras yesterday. The first woman in the world to give birth following an ovarian transplant cradled her new-born baby and added: &quot;It is what I have always wanted.
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The UK's fertility regulator is set to rule that stem cell medics can recruit women to donate eggs for research.