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Surgeons in America have transplanted the heart of a pig into a human patient.
A new trial is underway to test whether stem cell transplants could put an end to Crohn’s disease. 115,000 people in this country alone have the chronic condition – an inflammation of the gut which can be painful, exhausting and require major surgery. Anja Popp went to find out more and meet one person who…
Faecal microbiota transplants, or FMT, are being given to people with c-diff infections when antibiotics have failed. Now this treatment is being regulated as a ‘medicine’ by the government.
Sickle cell anaemia is the most common inherited blood disorder in the UK, affecting 15,000 people – mostly among those with African or Caribbean backgrounds. Bone marrow transplants from a related donor offer hope to some patients of a cure and medical advances have made it a safer procedure. But while children can have the…
Wales is set to introduce a new system where consent to organ donation is assumed, thus helping to reduce the list of 7,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant.
Doctors give the go-ahead for 10 women to have the first ever womb transplants in the UK from deceased donors.
Eight-year-old Zion Harvey lost both his hands when he was two and is the first child to receive the pioneering operation.
A landmark procedure carried out at a UK hospital is set to significantly increase the number of lives saved among people waiting for a heart transplant.
A radical plan for transplanting a head onto someone else’s body could happen by 2017, a scientist claims.
Doctors carry out pioneering surgery to carry out the first organ transplants from a new-born baby after her heart stopped beating – helping two other children who urgently needed help.
Victoria Macdonald
It was the first live birth from a womb transplant – baby Vincent had been born from a womb donated by a 61-year-old friend of the new mother. But when will such transplants come to Britain?
Doctors in Sweden tell of the “breathtaking” procedure which led to the world’s first baby born to a woman who had received a womb transplant.
As a 51-year-old man receives the first UK hand transplant, Channel 4 News looks at the possible psychological effects of this kind of surgery.
Doctors in Sweden claim they have performed the first mother-to-daughter womb transplants which they hope will increase the chances of the recipients having a baby.
A US man seriously disfigured following a gun accident in 1997 receives what is thought to be the most extensive face transplant to date.
