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Everything you need to know about the UK’s first womb transplant

The UK’s first womb transplant means that, in future, dozens of women born without a functioning organ can carry babies of their own. – What has happened? Surgeons have performed the UK’s first womb transplant on a 34-year-old woman whose older ...

23 Aug 2023 at 08:17

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Portarlington man fundraises for liver transplant unit

Portarlington man, Kevin McCormack came up with a novel way to celebrate his 60th birthday recently by donating €3,735 to the Liver Transplant Unit in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. Kevin explained, that having been the recipient of a liver ...

28 Aug 2017 at 13:23

Lifestyle

What’s my blood type? How can I donate? Everything you need to know about giving blood

The NHS has issued an urgent plea for blood donors following a cyber attack which affected several major hospitals in London last week. King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ declared a “critical incident” after pathology firm ...

10 Jun 2024 at 13:56

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Gardai in the Midlands rush patient to Dublin for transplant operation

Gardai in the Midlands rushed a patient to a transplant operation in Dublin yesterday. The man from Laois was called to Beaumont for a kidney transplant. “It's not a call we get often but one we were more than happy to help with,” ...

06 Jan 2023 at 16:49

Local News

Scientists convert lungs to universal blood type in step towards neutral organ transplants

Researchers have converted lungs donated for transplants to a universal blood type in a step towards creating neutral organs that could expand the options for patients awaiting a transplant. The achievement could mean ...

17 Feb 2022 at 13:46

Lifestyle

James Haskell: I might get a hair transplant

Ex-England rugby pro James Haskell has revealed that he hasn’t ruled out a hair transplant – and would even get cosmetic surgery. The 37-year-old said that he might get his hair “sorted out” because it’s thinning. ...

23 Feb 2023 at 07:00

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Young mother in Midlands gets lifesaving heart transplant

A Laois woman has received the lifesaving gift of a new heart, after waiting in hope in her hospital bed for the past seven months. Mother of three Denise Geoghegan, 39, from Portarlington received her heart ...

17 Jul 2020 at 11:27

Northern Ireland

Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South West Acute ...

22 Aug 2022 at 15:30

National News

Families of children waiting for heart transplant appeal for donors

The families of five children waiting for a heart transplant have joined together to ask people to consider becoming organ donors. Since the pandemic the number of available organs has dropped, leading ...

21 Jul 2022 at 16:19

National News

'A massive success' - Woman receives UK's first womb transplant thanks to sister's donation

A woman has been given a womb by her older sister in the UK’s first womb transplant. The 34-year-old married woman received the organ – also called the uterus – during an operation lasting nine hours ...

23 Aug 2023 at 13:13

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