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Australia urged to consider 'opt-out' organ donation

12th December 2018

The Australian government has been urged to consider changing the organ donation system to an ‘opt-out’ scheme to combat the…

6th August 2018

Bioengineered lungs, developed by growing autologous cells on acellular lung scaffolds, can be successfully transplanted…

5th June 2018

A Brazilian woman who was born without a vagina has had a new one created using fish skin. According to her surgeons, 23…

24th April 2018

Surgeons in the US report the first successful transplant of a penis and scrotum on a young army veteran. The former US…

17th April 2019

This content has been developed independently by Australian Doctor Group at the request of, and with funding from,…

20th July 2017

The world’s first double hand transplant in a child has been successful, US surgeons report. In the Lancet, they detail the…

24th March 2017

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5th November 2016

I was born in Italy in 1943, and as a baby I became very dehydrated. We got kicked out of our village with the German…