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UK may ban private transplants

World
2009-8-1

THE British government said yesterday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line. A government-commissioned...

New hands but still no feeling

World
2009-7-18

JEFF Kepner says he is looking forward to being able to feel his wife's and his daughter's hands when he holds them. The 57-year-old is the first American double hand transplant patient. He held hands with...

British girl's heart heals itself after transplant

World
2009-7-14

BRITISH doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah...

With sisterly help, ailing boy recovers

Metro | Health
2009-7-4

JIANG Shubao, the boy aged four who received a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to treat a serious blood disease, is on the mend and was yesterday discharged from the Shanghai Children's Medical Center. Doctors...

US pigs to aid research into transplants

National
2009-7-4

FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor...

Patient dies after face transplant

World
2009-6-16

A BURN victim who received a simultaneous partial face and double hands transplant in a French hospital has died, the Paris Public Hospital authority said yesterday. The man, whose name has not been made public,...

Prisoner kidney transplant approved

National
2009-6-12

A PRISONER in central China's Hubei Province has received approval from the state prison authority to go ahead with a kidney transplant to save his seriously ill brother. The Hubei prison authority has arranged...

China's pioneering face-transplant recipient dies

National
2009-2-14

CHINA'S first face-transplant patient died probably because he stopped taking immune-suppressing drugs, the doctor who performed the operation said recently. Li Guoxing survived for about two years after the surgery...

China bans organ transplant operations for foreign tourists

National
2009-2-10

THE Ministry of Health said today that China prohibits organ transplants for foreign visitors carrying a tourist visa and the ministry will deal harshly with domestic medical institutions involved in illegal organ...

Woman gets first trachea transplant without drugs

World
2008-11-19

A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported today....