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Image shows the surgery, undated photo. A child received a kidney from a donor with a different blood type for the first time ever in the city of Innsbruck, in Tyrol, Austria. (Florian Lechner Innsbruck/Newsflash)

Child Doing Great After Receiving Organ From Father With Different Blood Type In First Of Its Kind Surgery

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:February 9, 2023

Doctors revealed that a child who received a kidney transplant from his father with a different blood group in a first-of-its-kind surgery in Austria is doing well. The extraordinary surgery…

Picture shows Emma, 17-months-old, undated. She received the first intestine transplant from a deceased person in the world. (CEN)

13-Month-Old Receives Historic Intestine Transplant

Post author:Alice Amelia Thomas
Post published:October 20, 2022

An adorable infant named Emma has received the world’s first intestinal implant from a dead organ donor. The 17-month-old tot - from Segovia, Spain - is the first person in…

Siamese twin turtles found by tourists in Pamukkale travertines region, Turkey. (Dr. Eyup Baskale/Newsflash)

Double Headed Conjoined Twin Turtles Die Of Multiple Organ Failure

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:March 7, 2022

These rare conjoined twin turtles that made international headlines after they were found on a beach by a tourist have died of multiple organ failure. The conjoined turtles were found…

Makarios Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus where the child was hospitalized. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

Boy, 3, Denied Urgent Heart Transplant By Several Countries Because Parents Were Unvaccinated Against COVID

Post author:William McGee
Post published:February 22, 2022

A three-year-old boy will undergo an urgent heart transplant in Greece after a German hospital cancelled his operation at the last minute because his parents were unvaccinated against COVID-19. The…

Elif Kocaman, 33, who once held the record for the shortest woman in the world, died of multiple organ failure due to pneumonia in Osmaniye, Turkey in December 2021. (Newsflash)

Former Guinness Record And Turkey’s Shortest Woman Dies Of Pneumonia

Post author:Marija Stojkoska
Post published:January 14, 2022

A woman who once held the Guinness World Record for being the shortest woman in the world has passed away in Turkey. Elif Kocaman, who lived in the town of…

Giorgia Racca, 15, (right) who died only one day after her mother, after a traffic accident that involved five cars, which took place at a roundabout in Rivoli, Turin in Italy on 31st August, photographed with her father Daniele Racca.

Italian Girl, 15, Becomes Organ Donor Hours After She Dies In Crash That Also Killed Mum

Post author:Tijana Milikj
Post published:September 17, 2021

The body of a 15-year-old girl has been buried by her family after she became an organ donor when she was killed in a car crash together with her mum,…

A scan performed at Hangzhou First People’s Hospital in Zhejiang, China, on 3 June show Mr Xie’s inflamed liver filled with fluid and tumour-like growths due to a parasitic fluke infection

Man Gets Parasites From Raw Fish And Loses Half A Liver

Post author:John Feng
Post published:July 27, 2020

A Chinese man who ate a delicacy of undercooked fish has lost half a liver after the vital organ was “eaten" from the inside by an army of parasitic flatworms…

Moment the doctors and nurse applaud the woman who is giving to give her organs to save seven lives

Medics Applaud 25yo Brain-Dead Organ Donor Helping 7

Post author:Ana Lacasa
Post published:September 13, 2019

This is the touching moment medics applaud a 25-year-old brain-dead woman as she is led down to surgery so her organs could go to seven other people. The unnamed housewife…