Transplant | Australian Doctor Group

What kind of person donates part of their liver?

8th July 2019

The driver for most people who anonymously donate part of their liver to a complete stranger is simply the wish to do a good…

30th May 2019

Doctors in the US say most of the face transplant patients they have been following for about five years are continuing to…

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…

17th September 2019

A new master’s degree from the University of Sydney seeks to disrupt the continuing education market by providing GPs with…

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…

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…