Transplantation Medicine

23 Aug 2012

Lomu expects to have second transplant

1:13AM

Dealers paid doctors to remove student's kidney

11 Aug 2012

Five men, including two doctors, have gone on trial in Chenzhou, Hunan, charged with intentional injury after they harvested a kidney from a high school student who sold it to buy an iPad and an...

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Huge organ-selling ring busted

5 Aug 2012

Mainland police have busted a highly sophisticated network of organ-trafficking syndicates across 18 provinces and municipalities, making 137 arrests and rescuing 127 would-be organ donors.

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Life-saver for HK liver patients

18 Jul 2012

Hong Kong's hospitals could be the first in the world to use a system able to save the lives of patients with liver failure by cleaning their blood with pigs' liver cells without the need for a...

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Kidney patients given a second chance at life

13 Jul 2012

With nearly 2,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney, patients can wait years before they get the chance of a transplant and a new lease of life.

Yet five patients in this...

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Patients in donation queue, saved by 'hidden hero'

2 Jul 2012

Four people have received vital new organs thanks to the generosity of a family who wanted their loved one to 'live on' through others.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Donors flock to centres after marrow appeal

Donation centres received seven times more non-Asian bone-marrow donors in the last week than they usually get in a year after the international community turned out en masse to help a French man...

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Quiz

A young French father of two, who has been a Hong Kong resident for 20 years, has acute leukaemia and urgently requires a bone marrow transplant. Unfortunately, none of his family members is a...

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So many patients dying needlessly while waiting for organ transplants

Earlier this year, you reported on my plight ('Husband has week to live unless he gets a new liver', January 20).

Following a roller-coaster of a month of hope, expectation and...

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Marrow donors answer plea to help Frenchman

The Hong Kong Bone Marrow Donor Registry has been inundated with foreign donors hoping to help a French leukaemia patient.

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Marrow donors rally to help Frenchman

The Hong Kong Bone Marrow Donor Registry has been inundated with foreign donors hoping to help a French leukaemia patient.

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