Kidney transplant recipients Stewart Cleaver and Carl Jones are two representatives of the Welsh national team at the first ever Transplant Football World Cup

Yma O Hyd: Welsh team making history at transplant World Cup

Georgia Wilding and Charlotte Douglas were among 11 medal-winning athletes who had life-saving transplants at a Newcastle hospital. 

Nurse who donated organ and transplant patient both win gold at European games

Gunner Lewis-Vale, from Shropshire, has left his home for the first time in six months after a stem cell transplant from a baby’s umbilical cord blood.

Family of boy, 5, with rare disorder given hope after umbilical cord transplant

Handout photo dated 1984 issued by the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust of Brenda Barber (right) at Papworth Hospital as she recovers from her heart-lung transplant, along with her surgeon John Wallwork (centre) and nurse Hazel Farren (left). The surgeon who led Europe's first successful heart and lung transplant told of his joy at seeing patients go on to lead a good life on the 40th anniversary of the landmark operation. Issue date: Thursday April 4, 2024.


Brenda Barber, Europe's first patient to successfully get a heart-lung transplant, had been days from death when she agreed to the surgery.

Mum lived to see daughter grow up after revolutionary transplant

Sir Roy led the first liver transplant operation in Europe at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on 2 May 1968.

Pioneering transplant surgeon Prof Sir Roy Calne dies aged 93

Seven-year-old Daithi Mac Gabhann is battling hypoplastic left heart syndrome and needs a new heart.

Daithi passes 2,000 days on heart transplant waiting list

An accident with a high-voltage power line destroyed most of Aaron James' face, one of his eyes and required him to have his left arm amputated.

US man receives first ever whole-eye transplant after life-changing accident

The family's "minds were blown" when both Jenna Williams and her father Kevin Silcox received heart transplants within two-and-a-half weeks of one another.

Dad and daughter get heart transplants within weeks of each other

Sanjana Kochhar was the first person to receive a heart transplant as a result of a new method known as the 'Heartbox'.

Heartbox trial: How Newcastle led the way with heart transplant innovation

The father of Dáithí MacGabhann has expressed his disappointment at the DUP's decision to not elect a speaker.

Dáithí Mac Gabhann’s family say he has been “temporarily suspended” from the organ transplant list.

Parents 'devastated' after six-year-old suspended from organ transplant list

Players are backing the 'Gob For Good' campaign started by a man who, like so many, is struggling to find a match to save his life.

Sports teams swab for stem cell register to help cancer patients

Gateshead six-year-old Leland hit the headlines last year when his search for a bone marrow donor went viral.

'Superhero' Leland, 6, now cancer free 

A stem cell transplant replaces damaged blood cells with healthy ones, which can treat conditions affecting the blood cells, like leukaemia and lymphoma.

Urgent call for more stem cell donors to come forward amid post-lockdown decline

Luke Amos's uncle switched his medical research after watching nephew on gruelling dialysis.

Nephew's kidney transplant inspires 'game-changing' research

22-year-old Luke Alexander received a life-saving liver transplant and has produced a short documentary about the difference organ donation can make.

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