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Organ donation

June 2024

  • Little G, born Gina Chrisanthopolous

    ‘It’s only because of your son that my daughter’s living’: overcoming the cultural barriers to organ donation

    Culturally and linguistically diverse communities account for just 15% of organ donations made in 2023, but advocates say the more diversity among donors the better

May 2024

  • A surgical team performs a kidney transplant in an operating theatre.

    The long read
    ‘Although she was dead, I felt as if she was my friend’: what it’s like to perform the last rites for an organ donor

  • James Mowbray

    Other lives
    James Mowbray obituary

March 2024

  • Person holding an NHS organ donor card

    Brief letters
    Donate for another’s benefit, not your own

  • Zoe Williams

    If I give away a kidney, will it make me a better person?

    Zoe Williams

January 2024

  • VARIOUS - 1993<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Judy Goldhill/REX/Shutterstock (223889ab) SIR ROY CALNE VARIOUS - 1993

    Sir Roy Calne obituary

    Pioneering British surgeon who carried out the world’s first liver, heart and lung transplant

December 2023

  • John O’Connor

    ‘I’m optimistic’: cancer patient given months to live hopes for stem cell match

  • A box labelled human organ for transplant

    UK minority ethnic transplant patients face double inequity, MPs say

November 2023

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    When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs

    After Brittany O’Connor was declared brain dead, her father clashed with medical authorities. The battle shines a light on America’s legal definition of death – and the thousands waiting for organ donation
  • A cow in a paddock on King Island, Tasmania

    Bone cows bred in Australia provide base material for dental grafts

    Use of cattle from country free of mad cow disease means product is safe, experts say, and patients can still donate blood
  • Doctor prepares Aaron James for whole-eye transplant in New York

    ‘An exciting time’: US eye operation is just latest leap forward for transplants

    Boundary-pushing 21-hour surgery follows series of extraordinary advances including pig heart transplants

October 2023

  • A macaque monkey

    Monkey survives for two years with pig kidney in ‘extraordinary milestone’

    Scientists say trial could pave way for better outcomes for ‘countless individuals’ in need of transplants

September 2023

  • A smiling Aari Patel with his arms raised above his head while wearing a striped top

    ‘We never thought Aari would die’: parents urge families to register their children for organ donation

  • Pigs behind the bars of a pig farm in Buenos Aires

    Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time

August 2023

  • Heart and lung transplant machine

    History of transplant breakthroughs: from hearts to hands … and heads?

    After surgeons perform first womb transplant in UK, we look at other major advances through the years

June 2023

  • Molly Cunningham Jones, left, and Kristi Hadfield in 2022.

    A hero twice over: US paramedic saves lives of two people in one family

    Kristi Hadfield saved John Cunningham, a military veteran, in 2016 and years later, donated a kidney to his daughter, Molly

May 2023

  • Hong Kong’s chief executive, John Lee

    Hongkongers opt out of organ registry ‘amid fear of Chinese donations’

  • Doctors performing legitimate organ transplant surgery in an operating room of a UK hospital.

    Met police investigate more organ trafficking cases in UK

March 2023

  • Sonia Ekweremadu, 25, with her prospective donor days before they were falsely presented to the Royal Free hospital as cousins.

    ‘There is a level of complacency’: trial exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting

  • An organ transport ice chest.

    AI could help NHS surgeons perform 300 more transplants every year, say UK surgeons

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