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Adults 'should be legally required to decide on organ donation' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
"Every adult in Britain should be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, according to the Royal College of Physicians. "
NHS launches hard-hitting organ donation ad - The Guardian 2nd November 2009
"Television campaign highlights fact that three people die each day due to shortage of donors"
Organ transplants: Adults should be compelled to choose if they want to be donors - Daily Mail 3rd November 2009
"All adults in the UK should be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, according to the Royal College of Physicians.
The ethics committee at the RCP want to examine the possibility of 'mandated choice' to boost the number of organ donors in Britain."
Change law on organ donation, doctors say - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"Every adult in the UK would be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, under a radical solution to the critical shortage of organs for transplant put forward by the country's oldest royal medical college. The ethics committee of the 500-year-old Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for an examination of "mandated choice" as a means of boosting the supply of organs, the shortage of which is leading to more than 1,000 avoidable deaths a year. "
Jeremy Laurance: Let's face our mortality and allow others to live - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"I have carried the same organ donor card for the past 25 years. It is always with me in my wallet and although I may be getting on a bit and my organs past their best, I am still a prime candidate, being a London cyclist.
Yet should someone one day scrape me off the road and find my card among my things, it would be useless. It contains the telephone number of a house I left 15 years ago and the name of my then next of kin, from whom I have been divorced for more than a decade."
Leading article: Closing the gap on organs - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"The shortage of organs in this country is critical. Of the 8,000 people who were waiting last year for transplant operations, the lack of available organs meant less than half that number underwent transplant in 2008-9.
The shortage means that each year a large number of people die unnecessarily; are condemned to death in one of the cruellest of ways, in fact, because they know an extension to their lives is not beyond hope and is being denied them solely because no donated organ is available."
Brave Ella Wright loses fight for life after bone marrow transplant - Liverpool Daily Post 26th October 2009
"LITTLE Ella Wright – who with brother Sam inspired an ECHO campaign for more bone marrow donors – has died.
The eight-year-old passed away after suffering complications from the procedure it was hoped would save her life."
Brave Ella Wright loses fight for life after bone marrow transplant - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"LITTLE Ella Wright – who with brother Sam inspired an ECHO campaign for more bone marrow donors – has died.
The eight-year-old passed away after suffering complications from the procedure it was hoped would save her life."
Giving birth to womb transplants - BBC Health News 22nd October 2009
"British doctors say they are a step closer to carrying out the first ever successful womb transplant. Is this really feasible, and indeed desirable?
It is not the first time that doctors have declared a functioning womb transplant is within our grasp, but a surgeon from London's Hammersmith Hospital now claims to have overcome one of the most insurmountable problems: securing the complex blood supply. "
Womb transplants 'within two years' - The Independent 22nd October 2009
"British scientists believe they will be able to carry out the first-ever successful womb transplant within two years. They have worked out how to transplant a womb with a good blood supply which could mean it lasts long enough to carry a pregnancy to term.
A breakthrough in this area would offer an alternative to adoption or surrogacy for women whose wombs have been damaged by diseases such as cervical cancer. Around 15,000 women of childbearing age have a womb that does not work or were born without one."
First womb transplant could take place in 2 years - The Times 22nd October 2009
"British doctors have moved a step closer to carrying out what they hope will be the world’s first successful human womb transplant, giving hope to thousands of women who are unable to have children for medical reasons.
London-based surgeons and vets, working with medical teams in New York and Budapest, have performed the first long-term transplants of a uterus with a reliable blood supply in rabbits. If trials on larger animals are successful, the first woman could receive a viable uterus transplant from a deceased human donor within two years, the researchers say."
Tests must be rock solid - The Times 22nd October 2009
"Physicists like to joke of nuclear fusion that it has been 30 years away for the past 30 years, and something similar could easily be said of womb transplants.
In 2003 a Swedish team predicted that it would conduct such an operation within three years and in 2006 Richard Smith’s group claimed to be two years away. The suggestion that Mr Smith’s advance could lead to a transplant two years hence should properly be seen in that context."
Womb transplants available 'within 2 years' - Daily Telegraph 22nd October 2009
"Thousands of women unable to have children have been given hope after doctors from London predicted the world's first successful womb transplant could take place within two years. "
Womb transplants 'on the way in two years' - Daily Mail 22nd October 2009
"British scientists are a significant step closer to carrying out the world's first successful womb transplant, they said yesterday.
It will bring hope to the 15,000 women of childbearing age in the UK born without a womb or who had it removed because of cancer or another disease. "
Womb transplants 'a step closer' - BBC Health News 22nd October 2009
"The first successful human womb transplant could take place within two years, British scientists have said.\n\nLondon-based experts say they have worked out how to transplant a womb with a regular blood supply so it will last long enough to carry a pregnancy. "
The Big Question: Should organs donated for transplant always come from healthy people? - The Independent 13th October 2009
"Why are we asking this now?
Matthew Millington died from lung cancer less than a year after undergoing a lung transplant. He was 31. The donor was a heavy smoker. The case, details of which emerged yesterday, has raised concerns about the screening of donors for transplants. Mr Millington, who was from near Stoke-on-Trent, was diagnosed in 2006 with an unspecified "serious lung condition" and told that without a transplant he had two years to live. "
Alert over donor organs riddled with cancer, mad cow disease and hepatitis - Daily Telegraph 12th October 2009
"Donor organs for transplant have been found to be infected with deadly diseases, carry cancerous tumours and have been too damaged to use, an alert to the health service has warned. "
Iraq veteran dies of cancer after lung transplant from heavy smoker - The Times 12th October 2009
"An Iraq war veteran died after receiving cancerous lungs from a heavy smoker in a transplant.
Matthew Millington, 31, a corporal in the Queen’s Royal Lancers, had the operation to save him from an incurable respiratory condition."
Soldier dies after being given cancerous lungs in transplant operation - The Sunday Telegraph 11th October 2009
"A soldier died after being given a pair of cancerous lungs in a transplant operation.\n\nMatthew Millington, 31, died at home in Brown Lees, near Stoke-on-Trent, after receiving the organs from a donor who is believed to have smoked between 30 and 50 roll-up cigarettes a day, an inquest heard. "
Frank Deasy's dying appeal continues to attract thousands more organ donors - The Observer 11th October 2009
"The Irish writer's consultant says that his words and his courage have touched people"
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