Months of screening begin as UK team gets go-ahead for first full-face transplant
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Surgeons at London's Royal Free hospital will today begin whittling down a short list of patients who are likely to become the world's first full-face transplant recipients.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 07, 2006
Heart of the matter
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In the last week of October 2007, the patients on the heart transplant waiting list at Papworth Hospital received disturbing news in the mail. Papworth, on the outskirts of Cambridge, the venue for the first successful heart transplant in the UK, in 1979, had hit a bad patch. Between January and September 2007, the hospital had carried out 20 heart transplants, and seven patients had died within 30 days. In addition, another patient who had received a new heart in October was in a critical condition and would fail to make it.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 06, 2008
The donor trail
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The donor family: Sue Burton
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Date Published: November 18, 2008
'One day I asked about my scar ...'
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I wasn't born with a heart problem; I was a normal, healthy baby until I got a chesty cough and runny nose at the age of five months, in August 1987. Everyone thought it was just a cold until suddenly I had difficulty breathing and my lips turned blue. I was rushed into hospital where an x-ray showed that I had contracted dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition that destroys the heart muscles. My parents were told that unless I had a heart transplant I would die.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 24, 2009
Mice could provide clue to Down's syndrome illnesses
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Human chromosomes transplanted into mice.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 26, 2005
Alcohol abusers should not get transplants
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George Best surgeon says a liver is wasted on those who drink again.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: October 05, 2005
Eye cell transplants on mice
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Restored vision in blind mice for blindness cure
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 09, 2006
