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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 to extremely poorly children waiting even ...

21 Jul 2022 at 16:19

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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 blood-matching no longer ...

17 Feb 2022 at 13:46

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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 Hospital in Enniskillen, which ...

22 Aug 2022 at 19:45

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Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

22 Aug 2022 at 15:30

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A long way from Kildare! Newbridge woman returns home from World Transplant Games 2023 in Australia

Kidney recipient Bernadette Cox from Newbridge was welcomed home to Dublin Airport on Sunday after taking part in the World Transplant Games in Perth, Australia last week. Bernadette was part of the 14 strong Transplant Team ...

26 Apr 2023 at 14:05

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 and 20 minutes at the ...

23 Aug 2023 at 13:13

Local News

Kildare coaches train Transplant Ireland footballers to first win

Transplant Sport Ireland (TSI) footballers played their first official international friendly against Team Northern Ireland on March 8 in the AUL, Dublin. Transplant Sport Ireland have a long-standing link with Kildare ...

14 Mar 2025 at 12:30

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