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Mum and son recover after transplant op

A STUDENT who risked being thrown off his course to give his mother a kidney says it was worth every penny. Daniel Autumn donated a...

Transplant for Aillidh, 8, who is battling deadly leukaemia

AN EIGHT-year-old girl battling with deadly leukaemia has been transplanted with stem cells from the umbilical cord of an American child in a pioneering...

Transplant unit marks 1000th operations

TWO patients have undergone landmark transplants at a unit which is to benefit from additional funding to increase the number of operations it carries...

Scots scientists create kidney from stem cells

SCOTTISH scientists have successfully created kidneys – giving new hope to the shortage of organs for transplant patients. Researchers at the Univeristy of Edinburgh grew...

NHS launches iPhone app for organ donation

NHS Lothian has become the first health board in Scotland to create an iPhone app. The “Sign up to Save a Life” app is aimed...

Pioneering eye surgery gives gift of sight to great-gran

By SHAUN MILNE A GREAT-GRAN can see her family for the first time in 30 years – thanks to pioneering new eye surgery. Jean Black, 69,...

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