This mother asked doctors to allow her to save her child. Read how she did it.
One organ donor can save seven lives and improve the quality of life for 50 more people.
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/ 10 January 2014
A procedure new to SA has allowed a young mother to give part of her liver to save her son.
Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.
With organ donations in SA dipping as low as two per million people many don’t live long enough to find a suitable match, writes Faranaaz Parker.
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/ 3 November 2010
Scientists on Tuesday presented a technique to create bioartifical organs using stem cells which they said will reduce the rejection of an organ.
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/ 28 September 2010
Doctors are to begin the trial of a treatment that could double the time transplanted organs survive in the body.
When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains re-established connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right.
The poverty of Cairo’s slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn’t enough, each of them sold a kidney.
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/ 30 October 2008
New procedure throws lifeline to HIV-positive renal patients.