All news on the topic: Organ donation

A nine year old boy who needed five organ transplants to save his life has finally found a match after waiting his entire life for the medical miracle to happen

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

James Decosta, 40, spent 20 years drinking up to 20 cans of cider a day to cope with feelings of social isolation - but has now quit alcohol for good and switched to fizzy drinks

James Morrison penned an online message to fans just hours before he found his ex-fiancée, Gill Catchpole, dead in their family home in Gloucestershire. A coroner has now ruled the mum-of-two took her own life

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

Gracie Doyle's life has been "changed forever" after she collapsed on her way to school and was rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for specialist care

A mosquito-borne disease has been affecting people across Europe, as the World Health Organisation warns that about half of the world's population is now at risk of dengue

An urgent appeal for O blood type donors has been launched by NHS Blood and Transplant following a cyber attack on a major pathology firm which caused chaos for hospitals

A MAN has made history by becoming the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea in a groundbreaking 'single stitch' surgery.Cecil Farl

Cecil Farley faced a year-long wait for sight-saving surgery after a human cornea transplant failed, but his surgeon offered him the chance to skip the queue by using an artificial one

Mum-of-two Frankie McCulloch shares a tight bond with the family of a man killed in a sudden act of violence that allowed her the chance to receive his donated organ and carry on living

Teddy Houlston’s death so soon after birth left a hole in his family’s life that has been especially hard for his twin Noah, but the birth of baby Bodhi has helped the family heal

Harlow Gardner, six, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation in August 2022 - a form of skeletal dysplasia, a category of disorder that affects bone and cartilage growth

Bev Farnsworth, 65, put out a plea on Facebook as she needed a new kidney due to a hereditary condition and an old friend Lisa Chapman, she had not seen for 20 years, came forward

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

A GIRL who was on dialysis for a tenth of her life has now received a kidney transplant thanks to a new “swap” scheme.Destiny-Rae, five, had spent

More than a hundred patients will take part in a new multi-year trial to test whether a small patch of skin grafted from a lung donor on to a transplant patient can help alert doctors to early signs of rejection

SKIN patches could halve rates of deadly organ rejection in transplant patients, hope scientists running an NHS trial.Around 4,500 Brits have organ tr

Kieron Dyer spent the first few months of the season watching National League games and advising manager Paul Cook from the hospital before and after a lifesaving liver transplant

Emma Keen was attacked by a yak while trying to trek for a charity close to her heart. Despite the incident, she managed to join the group and reach base-camp via horseback

Jaxon Barnes, 2, was taken to hospital after his mother noticed that he had a hard stomach in August 2022. The right side of Jaxon's stomach was hard but the tot wasn't in any pain

A man has cut ties with his parents who claim their first cousin marriage hasn't hurt anybody - but he says he was born with physical and mental defects due to their inbreeding

Joseph Higginson, 27, from Greater Manchester was having a takeaway with his family when he suffered an allergic reaction to a chicken curry. His sister tried using an EpiPen but he did not respond

Mechanic Joseph Higginson from Bury, Greater Manchester, died days after a mouthful of a butter chicken curry triggered a fatal allergic reaction due to a nut allergy which had evolved without him realising

Florence-Ivy Langton will get a shot at life thanks to an anonymous donor who came forward agreeing to a liver donation following a Mirror campaign, with the four-month-old undergoing the transplant at Leeds Children's Hospital