Alison, 48, from Tipperary Town, will launch an epic fundraiser on Thursday, March 6th, and hopes to complete it on Cashel on March 13th. Diagnosed as a young man with …
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Kidney Transplantation
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Heart Transplantation
Sligo Woman Veradwire for Lung Transplant Records
by News Sourceby News Sourcerte Ms Dwyer was awarded a gold medallion from the Irish Heart and Lung Lung Transplant Association at Maternal Hospital in Dublin Srigo women are recognized as the world's longest-lasting …
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Jenny Ireland was in desperate need of a new liver, so she and her husband posted signs and signs around town looking for a donor. The …
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Laís Basílio, 23, raised more than €5,000 through fundraisers over the summer. Lais Basilio, 23, was diagnosed with cancer at the end of last year and learned he desperately needed …
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Belfast woman urges people to talk about organ donation 20 years after life-saving transplant – Irish News
by News Sourceby News SourceA Belfast woman who received a life-saving transplant has urged people to consider adding the 'gift of life' to their Christmas lists and talk to their loved ones about their …
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Lung Transplantation
Woman receives first robotic double lung transplant
by News Sourceby News SourceCheryl Melker underwent the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant on October 22nd at New York University Langone Health Center in Manhattan. Meaker, a doctor, had been suffering from …
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Kidney Transplantation
An Irish woman donated a kidney to save a friend who was born just four minutes after her in the same hospital.
Born four minutes apart in the same maternity hospital, the two women's 50-year friendship was cemented when one woman donated a kidney to save the lives of a sick friend …
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Bone marrow transplantion
'Stem cell transplant saved my life' – Woman praises hospital team 40 years after rare blood cancer surgery
Maircil Houlihan underwent a bone marrow transplant at St James's Hospital in 1989. Photo: Paul Sharp A Dublin woman who was one of the first patients to receive a stem …
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Caroline Dempsey, Wexford Mayor Councillor Ger Carthy, Beau Whelan Slattery and her mother Ciara Whelan took part in a fundraiser at Caroline's home in support of the Irish Heart Foundation. …
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Lung Transplantation
Miracle mum Deirdre Roche Doherty from Kilkenny is the only woman in the world to have undergone a heart, double lung and kidney transplant and given birth to a baby.
by James Wardby James Ward“Every day I look at my two children I think of their donors. Without them I wouldn't be here.” Those are the words of miracle mother Deirdre Roche-Doherty, who is …