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Patient, 62, who had world’s first successful pig kidney transplant dies just weeks after he was discharged from hospital following pioneering surgery

Health
Sarah Carter

The first patient to ever receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig has died just two moths after the procedure. ...

Man who was dying from inoperable cancer will make history by having multi-organ transplant surgery for a SECOND time in bid to save his life

Health
Sarah Carter

Adam Alderson, 43, first entered medical textbooks in 2015 A man told he was dying from inoperable cancer is set to make ...

Thousands of kidney disease patients set to benefit from £1-a-dose diabetes drug which can reduce the need for dialysis and a transplant

Business
Robert Johnson

Empagliflozin slows kidney disease which can affect one in ten people  The drug will be made available to more than 220,000 people ...

Ill, thin and broken, ex-England footballer Kieron Dyer, 44, was dying with a rare liver disease just 11 weeks ago. Now, he speaks for the first time after a ‘miracle’ transplant gave him a second shot at life

Sports
Olivia Martin

Ex-footballer Kieron Dyer had a life-saving liver transplant just 11 weeks ago He is relishing his second chance at life after previously ...

Jurgen felt fit and healthy but underwent a transplant on doctors’ orders. Weeks later he was dead. Now his wife has a grim theory about what killed him

Health
Sarah Carter

A transplant patient has died after contracting a fungal infection in hospital in the third death from similar circumstances in Brisbane. Dad ...