All news on the topic: Organ donation

A baby boy from Gloucestershire was diagnosed with a rare liver disease at just seven months old and required a liver transplant at just 13 months old, his parents said

Former England international Kieron Dyer has undergone a liver transplant and been discharged from hospital after being diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis in 2019

More than five million people around the world suffer from the conditon including some high profile celebrities, but what are the 13 signs to look out for before it progresses

Heavy drinker Gavin Maidment has opened up about his regrets, reflections - and how he is using his project management skills to sort his life out before he passes

The NHS is launching an appeal for more of us, including older patients, to download the NHS app to help manage our health - and there are hopes more people will become organ donors

Amelia Bolter was 17 months old when doctors said she was 'waiting at God’s door', and she has now spent ten months in hospital hooked up to a machine to keep her alive

"It reminds us he has been recognised for what he has done. I always tell people Aari died but we celebrate the fact that he has helped others. We’re so proud of him"

“She loved being back with her siblings, just in time to welcome her new baby brother, Ralphie, to the world. It was the one thing she wished for in her recovery – to hold her baby brother”

Scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health in China reported the kidneys had normal structure and formation after 28 days and were 50% to 60% human cells

Katie and Graham Tatham are hoping for a donor for their son Ralph after he was diagnosed with liver cancer but say it's hard to process that only another child can save him

Ethan Eaves was admitted to hospital at five months and stayed there until he came home in the summer of 2020 at 18 months old, following his lifesaving transplant

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

Pablo makes an anguished plea for a stranger to come forward in an emotional clip taken in hospital and shared by the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust Charity (ACLT)

The siblings were said to be 'over the moon' after the surgery, the donated organ is functioning 'perfectly' - and medics are excited at the prospect of helping more women

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

The US man had been declared brain dead so was used in a test with his family’s consent which is the first to show pig organs could be viable for humans

Katie Price has opened up on her fearing her mother Amy was going to die before she received a lifesaving lung transplant following a dopathic pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis in 2017

Ian Wilkinson remains in a coma at Austin Hospital in Australia after he attended a fatal dinner where guests were served wellington pie - he could hold the key to what happened

Neighbours heard Erin Patterson wailing after a lunch held at her home in Victoria, Australia, last week which has seen all four guests fall ill and three of them die so far

Mum-of-four Rebecca Wilcox believes her son could have been saved had he done a test for Helicobacter Pylori and is now raising awareness for travellers in his name

When William Verden was being kept alive by dialysis, doctors claimed end-of-life care was in his best interests but mum Ami McLennan argued for his right to have a transplant

Andy Cole, who spent six years at Old Trafford, scoring 121 goals for the club and playing a key role in United's treble triumph of 1999, underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 after contracting an airborne virus

Graham Murray, from Levenshulme, was diagnosed with kidney failure aged just 27, and had to have dialysis treatment for a number of years from 2019

One long-time donor told how she had given up after three appointments were axed, despite her having the most in-demand blood type

Surgeon David Bartlett is faced with his worst nightmare mid-transplant, when his patient's blood supply proves too weak for his new liver. If he can't get it flowing, Dan will die within days