Organ donation

Scientists want your brain to help find cure for Alzheimer's MEDICAL breakthroughs and new treatments could be made more quickly if there was an increase in the number of people donating their brain for research, experts said yesterday.

Why we shouldn't assume anything on organ donation SHOULD it be assumed that we want to donate our salvageable organs after our death unless we sign a designated form opting out of this arrangement?

Older organs 'may be healthier for transplants' UK transplant surgeons could be the first in the world to use a new test aimed at extending the availability of useful organs.

The painful choice to offer a life after death IMAGINE waking up every morning wondering if today will be the day when the phone rings with a message that could save your life. This is the reality for thousands of people needing an organ transplant, realising that, for them to live, someone else

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Second life

'She would have been happy to know that she helped save the lives of others'

Doctors to fight for change in law on organ donation

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