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Patients in need of transplants in Venezuela

01:36 Why are Venezuela’s transplant patients having to struggle to survive?Some are waiting for an organ, while others are at risk of compromising their transplants, due to the scarcit

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See how COVID-19 has impacted organ transplantation in Venezuela

03:20 Venezuela’s organ transplant crisis has been deepening for years.Even before thecoronaviruspandemic, the wait list for transplant patients meant an agonizing daily reality for tho

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Villagers in Sichuan mark beginning of rice transplanting

00:38 Helin Village in southwest China's Chengdu City is holding seed transplant and paddy field fishing competitions to mark the beginning of this year's rice transpla

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China's Zhejiang completes lung transplant for COVID-19 patient

Doctors in east China's Zhejiang Province have completed a double-lung transplant surgery on a patient of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the First Affiliate

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First COVID-19 patient to get lung transplant in stable condition

File photo via VCG The world's first lung transplant for a patient infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was conducted by doctors from east Chin's Wuxi City on Saturday, Dr.Ch

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World's first penis, scrotum transplant done in US

DoctorsatJohnsHopkinsUniversitysaidMondaytheyhaveperformedtheworld'sfirsttotalpenisandscrotumtransplantonaUSmilitaryservicemanwhowaswoundedinAfghanistan.The14-h

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French man becomes world's first to undergo face transplants twice

JeromeHamonisgettingusedtohisnewsoubriquet"themanwiththreefaces".HeremainsinaParishospital,threemonthsafterundergoinghissecondfacetransplant,buthasquicklyaccept

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Chinese surgeons to train Pakistanis in liver transplant surgeries

ByAPDwriterMuhammadSohailISLAMABAD,March21(APD)--AChinesedelegationofsurgeonswillconductlivertransplantsurgeriesatthePakistanInstituteofMedicalSciencesincapital

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Why Human Head Transplants Will Never Work

AnItalianneurosurgeonisclaimingthathisteamhasperformedtheworld'sfirst"successful"humanheadtransplant,usingtwohumancadaversinChina,accordingtonewsreports.Theproc

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World's first child double hand transplant a 'success'

Thefirstchildintheworldtoundergoadoublehandtransplantisnowabletowrite,feedanddresshimself,doctorshavesaid,declaringtheground-breakingoperationasuccessafter18mon

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World's first child hand transplant a 'success'

Thefirstchildintheworldtoundergoadoublehandtransplantisnowabletowrite,feedanddresshimself,doctorssaidTuesday,declaringtheground-breakingoperationasuccessafter18

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French woman who received world's first face transplant dies

The world’s first face transplant recipient, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, died in April “after a long illness”, a French hospital said Tuesday (Sept 6).

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British first double hand transplant"successfully" completed

Leeds General Infirmary announced Friday that a team of eight surgeons has successfully undertaken Britain's first double hand transplant.

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Top Indian hospital says duped into removing kidneys for organ traffickers

A prestigious Indian hospital said on Monday it was duped by traffickers into removing the kidneys of victims believing they were relatives of needy patients, after five people were arrested for the crime.

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More organ transplant hospitals in China on the way

China is to increase the number of organ transplant hospitals from 169 to about 300 by 2020, according to the chairman of the National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee.

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Private hospitals unable to meet criteria imposed for organ transplants

Malaysians hoping for an organ transplant find themselves having to go overseas because private hospitals here are struggling to meet the new criteria imposed by the Health Ministry (MOH) two years ago. Several private hospitals used to do transplant surgeries until there was a death and the ministry shut down their operations.

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Simple blood test may detect heart transplant rejection: U.S. researchers

U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have developed a simple blood test that can detect heart- transplant rejection weeks or months earlier than previously possible.