Transplant News
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Moscow -
In the wake of the recent popular movie "Avatar", Russian scientists now have plans to transplant people's brains into robots.
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Oakland -
Don't you hate it when illegal immigrants sneak into our country just so they can get our precious, precious internal organs?
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Taipei -
Five people are now being treated with anti-AIDS drugs after a hospital mistake resulted in them receiving organs from an HIV-infected man in Taiwan.
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Eva Ottoson, a 56-year-old from Sweden, is set to become the first woman to have her womb transplanted into her own daughter.
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Toronto -
It's the hardest time for two families both waiting for doctors to walk down those long hospital corridors. For one the news will be heartbreaking and for the other the words will fill their hearts with hope.
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Boston -
A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston succeeded for the first time in building a transplantable liver in the laboratory with the same characteristics as the original organ.
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A spokesperson from Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain announced a man injured in a shooting accident had received the entire facial skin and muscles - including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth - of a donor.
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In November Sando, the famous Latin America entertainer had a heart and lung transplant. By Monday the entertainer had taken a turn for the worst. Reports now say Sandro has died at age 64.
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A team of surgeons from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have performed transplants on five patients using kidneys from which small cancerous masses had been removed.
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Organ transplants save lives. There can also be complications when it comes to having a new organ. The medication that stops the body from rejecting the new organ can also at times cause the body to develop cancer.
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Transplant Headlines
Barcelona confirm that their French international defender Eric Abidal is to undergo a liver transplant.
Scientists restore the sight of blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptor cells into their eyes.
An American man who received a full-face transplant is recovering well, according to the medical team that carried out the operation.
US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed, by giving a man a new jaw, teeth and tongue.
 A hospital in southern Turkey has performed the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.
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U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Roy Rice
File photo: An operating theater.
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