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A Herefordshire girl who refused a heart transplant heads for a family holiday to Florida with a children's charity.

Brothers born with a rare disease that destroys the gut have had their lives transformed by a pioneering bone marrow transplant operation.

The results of a review into a London hospital where four people died after heart transplants concludes that there was no wrongdoing.

Torquay United defender Chris Todd's first entry in his BBC Devon online diary documenting his battle with leukaemia.

The results of a review into a London hospital after four people died within a month of undergoing heart transplants are to be published.

A student at a university in Nottingham who died of meningitis donated five organs for transplant.

A toddler with leukaemia who was given just months to live has her vital bone marrow transplant.

The pioneering windpipe transplant carried out by Spanish doctors was almost scuppered by the low-cost airline Easyjet, the BBC has learned.

Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.

The funeral is held for a Nottinghamshire boy who was too ill to undergo a bone marrow transplant.

A girl who refused a heart transplant is able to go on a family holiday to Disney World thanks to an insurer.

People who die in Jersey may in future have their healthy organs removed for transplants unless they sign a form refusing consent.

A girl who asked to be allowed to die at home rather than have a transplant says she has received hundreds of messages of support.

The BBC News website looks at this issues surrounding consent for organ donation.

The PM says he is not ruling out a law change on organ donation, despite experts rejecting the idea of "presumed consent".

A Cambridgeshire company comes up with a machine which could improve heart donor success rates by 75%.

A woman who underwent the world's first whole ovary transplant speaks of her delight at giving birth.

The grandfather of a terminally-ill 13-year-old girl who refused a heart transplant backs her decision.

German doctors say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor.

Chances of long-term survival after a heart transplant rise if the donor and recipient are the same sex, researchers say.

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