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Father 'can't thank donors enough' for chance to watch his daughters grow up
A father of two who had four liver transplants before the age of 30 has said he “can’t thank the donors enough” for giving him the chance to to see his daughters grow up. Martin Dillett, who lives in Broxbourn near Edinburgh with his...
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Doctors perform kidney transplant on awake patient, who is out of hospital in 1 day
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have performed a kidney transplant on a patient who was awake the whole time. (Scripps News)
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Footage from the UK’s first womb transplant
Surgeons have performed the UK’s first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor. The 34-year-old married woman received the womb – also called the uterus – during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried...
Bridgeman Arts
The first human-to-human heart transplant 1967, and other breakthroughs in medicine in the 1960s
1967 South Africa - Dr. Christiaan Barnard performing the first heart transplant - laser - laser surgery - oral polio vaccine USA - Vaccine for measles, rubella and meningitis - Librium, valium
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It's National Organ Donor Day
Organ donors can save up to 8 lives and help improve the quality of life for over 75 people.
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Man Denied Heart Transplant For Being Unvaccinated Against COVID-19
D.J. Ferguson's family says Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston denied the procedure because he is unvaccinated.
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Associated Press reporter Marilynn Marchione talks about what Steve Jobs had been suffering from and how he dealt with the disease.
HEADLINE First Person: Jobs battled cancer quietly
CAPTION: AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione talks about what Steve Jobs had been suffering from and how he dealt with the disease. (Oct. 6)
Steve Jobs never said very much...
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VOICED : Heart in a box device helps save lives
As heart transplant surgery becomes more common the supply of donor hearts in the United States continues to fail to meet demand
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India's first successful kidney swap helps relations between Muslims and Hindus
1. Exterior shot of 'Jaslok Hospital', taxi entering the complex
2. Kidney patient Dayal Bhanushali and his kidney donor Sayeed Mohammed and husband of Shameem Begum
3. Damyanti Bhanushali (Wife of Dayal Bhanushali and kidney donor to...
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CLEAN : Heart in a box device helps save lives
As heart transplant surgery becomes more common the supply of donor hearts in the United States continues to fail to meet demand
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An anthropology professor at UC Berkeley reacts to the arrest of Brooklyn Rabbi Levy Rosenbaum for trafficking human organs. Seven years ago, she informed the FBI about his alleged dealings in black-market kidneys
HEADLINE: First Person: Expert reacts to Rabbi arrest
CAPTION: An anthropology professor at UC Berkeley reacts to the arrest of Brooklyn Rabbi Levy Rosenbaum for trafficking human organs. Seven years ago, she informed the FBI about his...
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Ex-firefighter makes 10th Covid-19 plasma donation
A former firefighter from Birmingham has become the first person in England to make 10 donations of convalescent plasma for the fight against Covid-19. Stephen Franklin, 54, had the virus in March and began donating in April.
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New Penis Recipient: 'What's the Big Deal?'
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus055798The recipient of the nation's first penis transplant, Thomas Manning, is taking the medical breakthrough in stride, brushing off the media attention saying, I happen to be the first person to...
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New Penis Recipient: 'What's the Big Deal?'
The recipient of the nation's first penis transplant, Thomas Manning, is taking the medical breakthrough in stride, brushing off the media attention saying, I happen to be the first person to receive a penis transplant. What's the big...
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VOICED : Bone marrow: why donate, and how?
VOICED : Bone marrow: why donate, and how?
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UK: 5 DAY OLD BABY BECOMES WORLD'S YOUNGEST TRANSPLANT PATIENT
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A five-day-old Irish baby has become the world's youngest ever transplant patient, it was revealed on Monday.
Little Baebhen Schuttke, who is now five months old, was given the lifesaving liver transplant operation by...
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New Penis Recipient: 'What's the Big Deal?'
The recipient of the US's first penis transplant, Thomas Manning, is taking the medical breakthrough in stride, brushing off the media attention saying, "I happen to be the first person to receive a penis transplant. What's the big...
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Doctors describe possible second HIV cure
A London man appears to be free of the virus that causes AIDS after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the "Berlin patient," doctors reported.
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South Africa - Major medical breakthrough
South African scientists claim to have made a medical breakthrough which raises hopes that human organs will soon be able to be frozen while awaiting transplant operations. The scientists, from the University of Pretoria, successfully...
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SYND 20 4 68 HEART-SWAP SURGEON BARNARD HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE
South African surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard says he will try another heart transplant in six weeks time.
1. ws doctors,
2. ms newsmen, photographers
2. mcu Dr Barnard speaks: "If we can perfect heart transplantation so that we can put...
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Sherrie Cramer of Sacramento, California returned to the Chinese province where she adopted her now 16-year-old daughter. She hopes to find a match for the bone marrow donation the girl needs to survive.
HEADLINE: Calif. mom goes to China to save daughter's life
CAPTION: Sherrie Cramer of Sacramento, California returned to the Chinese province where she adopted her now 16-year-old daughter. She hopes to find a match for the bone...
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Lung transplant recipient sings with donor's daughter
LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT SINGS WITH DONOR'S DAUGHTER
An opera singer who had two double lung transplants debuted a new song in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday (24 OCT. 2017)
Charity Tillemann-Dick was studying opera...