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World first as heart stored for 12 hours before transplant in France

The organ was flown across the Atlantic in a specially-adapted fridge

French taxi driver helps nun who misses critical flight due to strike

‘She told me that it was a miracle,’ the taxi driver says, after he drove almost 600 km one way

France’s first larynx transplant: Woman talks after 23 years’ silence

The transplant is the first of its kind in France, in an operation that lasted 27 hours and took a team of 12 surgeons from across the country

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How French village mayor is breaking organ donation taboo

The village sign has sparked debate in the street and got people talking about their own organ donation wishes

French scientist’s lightbulb moment to use worm blood in transplants

The breakthrough, which came overlooking a beach in Roscoff, improves the success rate of organ transplants

French boy, 12, who inspired a song finally receives heart transplant

Rémi from Toulouse, who is now recovering in hospital, had been waiting for a donor heart for 14 months

Christmas in Iceland for France’s double arm transplant patient

Icelander Felix Gretarsson is the world’s first patient to undergo the pioneering surgery

France’s first Covid double lung transplant patient ‘glad to be alive’

The patient received the life-saving transplant after two months in a coma. We also explain how everyone is automatically presumed to be an organ donor in France

Baby born after uterus transplant is a first for France

The mother’s uterus came from a transplant from her own mother at the same Paris hospital in 2019

French tech repairs Mick Jagger’s heart

Simple heart valve replacement surgery invented in France has got Mick Jagger back on his feet.

Mother donates womb to daughter

A woman who underwent France’s first uterine transplant can now have children – out of the uterus in which she grew as a foetus

Organ transplants fall for first time in 8 years

Organ transplants fell by 5% in France last year, the first drop in eight years.

First artificial heart transplant done outside France

French biomedical company Carmat has announced that it has successfully implanted an artificial heart outside of France for the first time.

Double arm transplant woman vows to play piano again

A woman who was the first ever in France to receive a double-arm “transplant” has survived and vowed to play the piano again one day.

Transplant

World first as heart stored for 12 hours before transplant in France

French taxi driver helps nun who misses critical flight due to strike

France’s first larynx transplant: Woman talks after 23 years’ silence

How French village mayor is breaking organ donation taboo

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