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In a first time ever medical event, a kidney has been transplanted twice within a two-week period. The second transplant occurred because the transplant did not go successfully for the first recipient.
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Experiments on mice have shown that playing soothing music during organ transplants leads to faster recoveries and extended life expectancies. The same positive effect could work on people.
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A helicopter carrying Mayo Clinic staff en route to pick up an organ crashed early this morning, leaving three people dead.
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An Icelandic man has recieved the world's first completely artificial trachea transplant. Doctors, scientists and researchers hope to use this technology to do more with regenerative science.
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In a major breakthrough for heart transplant availability, and for organ transplants in general, scientists have successfully grown a living heart from stem cells.
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A group of athletes from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children are headed to the Gold Coast of Australia to compete in the 17th World Transplant Games with TeamCanada.
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Recently, a 45 year old man in France had snapped back to life. It was perfect timing as his organs were planning to be harvested by doctors.
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Donating organs after one has died is a way to see to it that your death or the death of your loved one can help save the life of another person who is ill.
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"Transplant tourism" is on the rise due to donor shortages.
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China has admitted to allowing "transplant tourism", and the source of the organs is astounding doctors in the West. ..
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 Hélène Campbell, who used Twitter to raise awareness about organ donation, is undergoing the lung transplant she's been waiting for since last summer.
The solution used to preserve some donor organs could be contaminated with bacteria, the government says.
Transplant operations in the UK will continue despite concerns about contamination of the fluid used to preserve some organs, the government's chief medical officer has said.
An Ottawa woman living in Toronto as she awaits a double-lung transplant appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday to talk about the importance of organ donation.
A rise in fatty liver disease may be leading clinicians to discard more donated organs, researcher found.
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