# transplant - Tuesday 6 August, 2013
The Minister for Health James Reilly will be recalled from his holidays to face questions from the Seanad on transplant legislation after a Fianna Fáil senator acquired the necessary signatures to a petition calling for the Seanad to reconvene.
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# transplant - Monday 5 August, 2013
In total, the team members won an impressive 12 gold medals, 10 silver and 12 bronze.
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# transplant - Friday 26 July, 2013
There are 24 Irish athletes taking part in the games this year, which will kick off in Durban, South Africa, on July 28.
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# transplant - Monday 22 July, 2013
The Department of Health is considering a new system where people are assumed to consent to donate their organs after death.
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# transplant - Saturday 29 June, 2013
The hospital is marking 10 years of performing kidney transplants, and said that last year was the busiest year ever for the transplants.
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# transplant - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
A campaign in the US last year resulted in a 21-fold increase in registration.
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# transplant - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
Doctors said that the patient contracted an unrelated illness that forced him to stop taking anti-rejection drugs.
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# transplant - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Months after the procedure, Carmen Tarleton revealed the results of her face transplant.
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# transplant - Monday 15 April, 2013
The new kidney started filtering blood and producing urine through the ureter as soon as the bloody supply was restored.
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# transplant - Saturday 30 March, 2013
# transplant - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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The Nobel Prize winner was 93.
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# transplant - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Jasper couldn’t use his back legs but after an injection of cells taken from his nose he showed considerable improvement.
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# transplant - Tuesday 18 September, 2012
Uterine transplants are a relatively novel medical procedure, with the first successful one conducted in Turkey in 2011.
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# transplant - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
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The New Zealand legend was hospitalised during last year’s Rugby World Cup, eight years on from his first kidney transplant.
# transplant - Thursday 14 June, 2012
We’d like to know: do you support embryonic stem cell research?
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# transplant - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
The social network says “simply telling people that you’re an organ donor” can help increase the number of people who sign up to donate.
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# transplant - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
The Leitrim girl who had a liver transplant operation after a transportation failure last year is fighting fit after finally getting her surgery.
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# transplant - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
Dallas Wiens, who lost all his facial features in an accident, says he can now feel his daughter kiss him on the cheek.
# transplant - Wednesday 28 March, 2012
Richard Lee Norris can feel his face and is already shaving, despite having his face ruined in a gun accident 15 years ago.
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# transplant - Sunday 25 March, 2012
The former vice president of the United States has had a long history of heart problems and had been on the transplant list for 20 months.
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# transplant - Monday 27 February, 2012
A Turkish patient has had four transplanted limbs removed – after undergoing 20 hours of surgery – because his body rejected them.
# transplant - Sunday 5 February, 2012
Your evening round-up of the day’s main news…
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After two and a half years on dialysis, Regina Hennelly got the call to say a donor had been found. Here she describes what it felt like.
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# transplant - Saturday 28 January, 2012
Earthquakes! Earnings! Petitions! Racehorses! Healthy cities?! Our weekly numerical guide to the events of the last seven days.
# transplant - Thursday 12 January, 2012
After exiting a helicopter carrying the heart for transplant, a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street.
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# transplant - Sunday 1 January, 2012
Years of serious childhood illness and two organ transplants stifled Trevor O’Sullivan’s personal wishlist for years. He’s still ill – but now he wants to really go for it, Rocky-style.
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# transplant - Thursday 15 September, 2011
King’s College Hospital has confirmed that the 14-year-old Leitrim girl has undergone a liver transplant operation.
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The government’s Learjet brought Meadhbh McGivern to London overnight; she is undergoing surgery there this morning.
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# transplant - Friday 12 August, 2011
Joe McGivern said a “complete and utter failure” led to his 14-year-old daughter missing out on a liver transplant.
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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Meadhbh McGivern missed the chance for a liver transplant, because a flight bringing her to London was organised too late.
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# transplant - Thursday 4 August, 2011
Hand and face transplants, test tube babies and plastic hearts – a look at some of the world’s medical firsts…
# transplant - Monday 4 July, 2011
Confusion still surrounds sequence of events that left 14-year-old patient without timely transportation to London for liver transplant surgery on Saturday.
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Nine things to know this morning…
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# transplant - Sunday 3 July, 2011
Coast guard was to due to fly her from Leitrim for London operation last night but medics decided she wouldn’t make it on time.
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# transplant - Tuesday 10 May, 2011
Dallas Wiens, 25, said that the the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was “Daddy, you’re so handsome.”
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# transplant - Tuesday 26 April, 2011
Surgeons in Boston have successfully performed the second full facial transplant in the United States; the patient, 30-year-old Mitch Hunter, was disfigured in a car accident ten years ago.
# transplant - Tuesday 19 April, 2011
A 26-year-old who lost her hand in a traffic accident has undergone a successful hand transplant in California, as has a 21-year-old Atlanta woman who had her hand amputated in infancy.
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# transplant - Sunday 3 April, 2011
Poor donation rates have contributed to seven out of ten organs harvested in Ireland being sent to other countries last year as they were incompatible with patients awaiting transplants here.
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