Dec. 23 is anniversary of 1st transplant
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Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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A Holland woman who owes the past six years of her life to a heart transplant is now awaiting a kidney transplant. Brenda Veenman, 60, was added to the University of Michigan&#39;s kidney transplant list Dec.
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The first penis transplant was a surgical, but not a mental, success. Chinese surgeons had to remove the organ at the request of the patient and his wife. In Bodyhack.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas -- the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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A man has been able to savour his first proper meal in nine years after surgeons successfully created and transplanted a jawbone for him.
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The Cleveland Clinic has received approval to perform the world&#39;s first human face transplant after 10 months of debating the issue.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair today met transplant recipients and the families of donors to mark the 10th anniversary of the NHS Organ Donor Register.
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Two years ago, Andrew Smith received a heart transplant at UCLA Medical Center. Today, the 46-year-old is healthy once again, training to compete in a triathlon -- thanks to the
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NEW YORK  - The first detailed report of  outcomes after 10 years for people given a liver transplant  because of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection shows that these  individuals fare just as well as those undergoing liver  transplantation for other reasons.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.
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DENVER Bob Hickey is making history on the operating table today -- becoming the first patient who obtained an organ via a for-profit Web site.
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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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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.
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Surgeons completed a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first operation where the donor and recipient met through a commercial Web site.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A University of Alberta islet transplant research program that has proven hopeful for patients with Type 1 diabetes will share a $75-million US grant from the American-based National Institutes of Health.
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Beyond her sorrow, the toughest dilemma Diane Quirley faced in the wake of her 23-year-old son Shawn&#39;s death in June 1997 was whether to donate his organs for transplant procedures.