In November last year Isabelle Dinoire became the first person in the world to receive a face transplant.
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In November last year Isabelle Dinoire became the first person in the world to receive a face transplant.
People should be paid for living organ donations, a US surgeon has said in an article in the British Medical Journal.
The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found.
A patient has been implanted with a body part which was allegedly stolen in the US, a hospital has confirmed.
Laws governing organ donation and tissue retention are to be radically changed, possibly allowing many more organ transplants.
How’s this for a repugnant situation? Take someone you love, perhaps your spouse or your sibling, and find a stranger who will accept a really big bet that your loved one will die prematurely, and if indeed that happens, you pocket a few million dollars.
The world’s first face transplant has been deemed a success by the surgeons who carried out the operation.
Relatives of people whose organs were retained by Scottish hospitals without consent are to get 5,000 compensation.
Doctors have carried out the UK’s first successful beating heart transplant.
The UK’s organ donation rate is one of the lowest in western Europe because grieving relatives are reluctant to allow such procedures, a study says.