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Too few Scots for own transplant organ pool
(The Scotsman 20/11/2009)
THE Scottish population is not large enough to provide the number of organs needed for transplant operations, and an independent Scotland would have to remain in the UK-wide pool of organ allocation, the Scottish Government has conceded. According to the latest consultation paper from the SNP's National Conversation, organ arrangements are one area of cross-border health co-operation that should continue if the Union is broken up.
A step too far?
(BBC 22/10/2009)
British doctors say they are a step closer to carrying out the first ever successful womb transplant. Is this really feasible, and indeed desirable? It is not the first time that doctors have declared a functioning womb transplant is within our grasp, but a surgeon from London's Hammersmith Hospital now claims to have overcome one of the most insurmountable problems: securing the complex blood supply.
Private transplants to be banned
(BBC 31/07/2009)
The government says it will ban all private transplants of organs from dead donors in the UK. The move comes after media reports of overseas patients paying to receive organs donated by British people. An independent report said the public needed to be confident that scarce donor organs are allocated fairly within the NHS. Transplant surgeons said it would reassure the public that organs will go to those in greatest need.
World's first double arm transplant man extols the joys of scratching
(BBC 22/07/2009)
A German dairy farmer who received the world's first transplant of two complete arms has spoken about his new limbs - and the joy of scratching. Karl Merk had the 15-hour operation a year ago in Munich after losing his arms just below the shoulder in a 2002 combine harvester accident. The 55-year-old's new limbs came from an anonymous donor who had died. Mr Merk told a news conference he can now open doors easily, eat without help, ride a bike and wash himself.
(BBC 10/06/2009)
Londoner Sukhi Johal paid £30,000 for a kidney transplant operation in Pakistan. She told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire show why she has no regrets about buying an organ from a live donor - something that is illegal in the UK.
UK transplants 'at record high'
(BBC 29/05/2009)
Last year saw a record high in the number of organ transplants carried out in the UK, NHS figures show. There were 3,504 organ transplants between April 2008 and March 2009, up 8% on the previous 12 months. The number of blood donors registered in England and north Wales increased by 245,000, halting a five year fall. But the NHS warned the need for donations had "never been greater", with 10,000 awaiting a transplant and 7,000 blood donations needed each day.
First US face transplant revealed
(BBC 06/05/2009)
The recipient of the first US almost-total face transplant has appeared before the media for the first time. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two was left without the middle section of her face after her husband shot her in 2004. Ms Culp, whose identity had been previously withheld, paid tribute to the donor family at a news conference. Surgeons at a clinic in a Cleveland, Ohio, replaced 80% of Ms Culp's face with that of a dead female donor.
Doctors warned over donor consent
(BBC 22/04/2009)
Doctors should not be taking it on themselves to ask bereaved families for consent to use their loved one's organs for transplants, a study suggests. Instead, the John Radcliffe Hospital research said consent was more likely to be given if a doctor was accompanied by a specialist transplant coordinator. The study also said discussing donation at a separate time to informing the relative about death was important.
French claim full face transplant
(BBC 07/04/2009)
A leading French surgeon says he has now effectively carried out a full face transplant after two operations in the same number of weeks. Professor Laurent Lantieri, who has performed three of the world's six partial face transplants, said every feature had now been transferred. In a lengthy operation at the weekend, a team in Paris transplanted the entire upper part of a man's face. Approval for a full face transplant was given in the UK nearly four years ago.
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