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'Pride of Britain changed my life - it's hard to believe I'm the same person'
Mirror writer Cecilia Adamou received a Teenager of Courage award in 2014 after recovering from a six-month regime of treatment for cancer - which included radiotherapy, immunotherapy and brain surgery
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Woman stopped at airport trying to take own heart in her hand luggage
Jessica Manning, 30, who was moving from New Zealand to Australia, has told how she was stopped at airport security taking her old heart into the country after a double transplant
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Grandma too sick for traditional transplant first woman to be given pig kidney
CONTAINS IMAGES OF SURGERY - Lisa Pisano's combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options until doctors came up with a novel idea
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Dad who died in his sleep was brought back to life by his own children
Michael Welsh was given CPR by his son and two daughters after he suffered a cardiac arrest in his sleep and they saved his life
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Girl, 4, harrowing milestone with one year in hospital waiting for transplant
The family of four-year-old Evie Green have told of their agonising wait for her life-saving heart transplant as they urged people to sign up to the donor register
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'Ministers shouldn't be surprised undervalued nurses are turning backs on NHS'
Is it any surprise thousands of nurses quit last year while universities have seen a major fall in students applying for nursing degrees after years of being underpaid and undervalued?
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Union leader had heart transplant after catching virus while washing dog
Union leader Mark Serwotka tells Kevin Maguire how his career and life were jeopardised when his heart was damaged in 2000 after catching a virus his dog got from a dead fox
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Boy, 4, dies just one day after finally getting heart transplant operation
A 4-year-old's emotional journey to receive a heart transplant ended in tragedy as he unfortunately passed away just a mere day after receiving the important surgery
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Tot celebrates Christmas at home after hospital stay with life-saving surgery
Louis Jones underwent gruelling heart surgery at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital months after he was born premature, and spent most of his short life so far on a neonatal ward
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Desperate race to save three-week-old baby who could be dead by Christmas
George Wathey is one of the UK's youngest patients waiting for a heart transplant at just three weeks old - mum Emma is desperate to find him a donor before it's too late
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Silent killer affects 900,000 Brits - but risk is lower if you have one feature
A team of Japanese researchers has discovered that leg size and strength correlates with a reduced risk of developing heart disease - so having bigger or more muscular legs could lower your risk
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Mum's plea for strangers to give poorly little girl Christmas cards
Little girl Evie Green, who has dilated cardiomyopathy, is loving receiving messages from people after her mum requested people send cards not presents to Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital
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'State of NHS is a disgrace even though staff do their best to help patients'
The NHS is at breaking point as a consequence of years of underfunding and this Government’s failure to provide more beds, more staff, and fix the crisis in social care.
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Girl, 2, who needed mechanical heart to be alive receives special Christmas gift
Beatrix Adamson-Archbold needed a mechanical Berlin heart to keep her alive for 14 months - but her life has been saved thanks to a heart transplant, her parents have said
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Pair who raised £1million for good causes send defib to King after palace honour
Sergio and Emma Petrucci were awarded MBEs for their fundraising after daughter Luna had life-saving heart surgery, and they back the Mirror’s campaign for ­defibrillators in public
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Hero toddler, 4, waiting on heart transplant goes into septic shock
Evie Green, four, has been in Freeman Hospital Newcastle for eight months waiting on news of a heart transplant and recently had a scare when she went into septic shock
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US Navy veteran becomes second person to receive a pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette, 58, is only the second person in history to have the life-threatening operation using a pig's organ after he wasn't eligible for a standard heart transplant
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Woman celebrates 'best birthday gift ever' from organ donor after life-saving op
Medics found Manjit Swayne had a hole in her heart when she was just six months old - now, more than four decades later, she is recovering from transplant after donor was found
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Gene-edited pig kidney has functioned inside a human for over a month
A brain-dead man has lived for over a month with a pig kidney transplant. This is the longest a human being has lived with a gene-edited pig kidney and a huge step toward the supply of organs for transplant
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Sofia Vergara in tears as mums united by baby’s heart transplant wow AGT judges
America's Got Talent fans and judges were moved to tears by the back story and performance of two mothers who met through devastating circumstances
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Quick-thinking girl, 6, uses Alexa device to call for help and save mum's life
Emma Anderson told how little Darcy, now six, stayed calm when her mother's "sore heart" - caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - twice failed to function properly
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'I became a widow at 22 - now I'm carrying out my late husband's bucket list'
Luke Barnes passed away earlier this year aged just 34, leaving behind his wife, 22-year-old Isobel Barnes - who hopes he is looking 'down on her living her best life'
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First British patient to try new organ transplant tech hails 'amazing' results
Transplant patients could get hearts from abroad as the box uses oxygenated blood to keep them stable for 12 to 24 hours, up from the current three to four hours
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Millions sign up for organ donor list after teenager backed Mirror campaign
When we began our Change the Law for Life campaign in 2016, there were 22.5million people on the NHS Organ Donor Register - now there are more than 30m, around 46% of the population
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'Hearts can be taken from dead bodies and kept in machines to boost transplants'
The technique was pioneered at the Royal Papworth hospital in Cambridge - and could boost the number of available hearts for transplants by as much as 30%
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