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Organ donor registrations in the UK rise from 28 to 29%
Yazan: Philip | 24 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Campaigns, External articles, News Ticker
NHS Organ Donation announced today that 29% (up from 28%) of the UK population are now on the Organ Donor Register – over 17 million people. We would like to think that this rise is in part due to the campaign run by groups such as ourselves in parallel with the national campaigns encouraging people to [...]
Transplant patients given lungs of smokers due to shortage of organ donors
Yazan: Philip | 15 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: External articles, News Ticker
Desperate transplant patients are being given the lungs of chain smokers because the NHS is so short of organ donations. Surgeons are also being forced to use diseased body parts from cancer sufferers, drug addicts and the very elderly. Experts say that the waiting list for transplants has now grown so long that hospitals are [...]
New breakthrough drug that could double the life of transplanted organs
Yazan: Philip | 16 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: External articles, News Ticker
Researchers at King’s College London have developed a new drug ‘coating’ for organs that shields them from the normal rejection effects and substantially increases the time that they remain healthy in the recipients body. Additionally, it has the side-effect of dramatically increasing the time that an organ can be kept ‘on ice’ and still be [...]
Transplant Kids release child organ donation awareness video
Yazan: Philip | 09 September 2010 | No Comments
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Our colleagues over at Transplant Kids have just released a new video promoting child organ donation. It includes children we have featured here on the DSL site and many many more. Please view and distribute far and wide to get the message across. You can view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MehtoWuyRjc
First implantable artificial kidney could remove demand for dialysis and donor organs
Yazan: Philip | 06 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: External articles, News Ticker, Press
An artificial kidney that would be implanted inside the body and work as well as a living organ is just around the corner, scientists have revealed. U.S researchers have just unveiled the first prototype model of the device, that could eliminate the need for dialysis. It would include thousands of microscopic filters to remove toxins [...]
Toddler was just a month old when he had a heart transplant
Yazan: Philip | 02 September 2010 | No Comments
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Youngest transplant boy thanks hospital staff A toddler who was just a month old when he had a heart transplant has been reunited with hospital staff who helped to save his life. Tom Stacey’s parents had no idea how ill he was when they rushed him to accident and emergency at Colchester General Hospital in [...]
‘Sell organs to save lives’
Yazan: Philip | 27 August 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: External articles, News Ticker
From the BBC News Website The demand for organ donors far outstrips the supply. In this week’s Scrubbing Up, Martin Wilkinson, a visiting professor at Keele University and former chairman of the New Zealand Bioethics Council, argues that selling organs is the way forward. When people’s organs fail, their best hope – sometimes their only [...]
Kidney transplant policy change ‘could save hundreds’
Yazan: Philip | 19 August 2010 | No Comments
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The number of UK kidney transplants could be doubled and hundreds of lives saved by using more organs from those whose hearts have stopped, experts say. Traditionally kidneys from those who are brain dead but whose hearts are still working have been preferred. A Cambridge University study of 9,000 transplants found kidneys from “cardiac death” [...]
The British Transplant Games: A mother of one young patient reveals why they mean so much
Yazan: Philip | 17 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: External articles, News Ticker, Press
Sarah Milne’s son William was born prematurely and at the age of four had to undergo a small bowel transplant. Just one year later he was competing in the British Transplant Games on the winning children’s team. Now, despite a recent setback, his aim is to take part in this summer’s competition… Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1301877/The-British-Transplant-Games-A-mother-young-patient-reveals-mean-much.html#ixzz0woLyeCQr [...]
Wife diagnosed with world’s rarest lung condition pledges to sign up 10,000 organ donors
Yazan: Philip | 07 August 2010 | No Comments
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Update – 13 September 2010 Teresa has written to us to update on her progress: “Just to give you the heads up an extra 578 people have now registered online which means we could save or transform 2,890 lives sometime in the future – how amazing is that??” Thanks Teresa - keep up the good work!!! [...]
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Altruistic organ donations triple to 1 in 12 of living donations in UK.
Altruistic organ donations triple
The number of living people giving one of their organs to a stranger almost tripled last year in the UK, according to new figures.
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AARON, from Alloa, underwent lifesaving heart transplant surgery in January and his story, which featured in the Sunday Mail, inspired thousands of Scots to sign up to the online donor register.
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Teenager killed in hit and run saves his best friend's life by donating his heart in organ transplan
Skylar Marion's heart was donated to his 15-year-old best friend Kyle Wilkerson after he was left in a coma from a hit and run just a quarter-mile from his home in Pasadena, Baltimore, in April.
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Heart transplant boy can't wait to go back to school after being just days from death
AARON McALEESE says he's looking forward to joining his school chums after coming back from the brink of death.
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