Read more about the article KIDNEY DONOR: Child Doing Great After Receiving Organ From Father With Different Blood Type In First Of Its Kind Surgery
Image shows the surgery, undated photo. A child received a kidney from a donor with a different blood type for the first time ever in the city of Innsbruck, in Tyrol, Austria. (Florian Lechner Innsbruck/Newsflash)
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KIDNEY DONOR: Child Doing Great After Receiving Organ From Father With Different Blood Type In First Of Its Kind Surgery

Doctors revealed that a child who received a kidney transplant from his father with a different blood group in a first-of-its-kind surgery in Austria is doing well. Image shows the surgery, undated photo. A child received a kidney from a donor with a different blood type for the first time…

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February 6, 2023
Read more about the article NO KID-NEY-ING: Children Find Kidney Donor For Their Dad
Joe Schmidt, 38, and his family pose in undated photo. The man from the state of Wisconsin, USA, received a kidney transplant on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. You might consider blurring the images of the children. (@savedaddy/CEN)
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NO KID-NEY-ING: Children Find Kidney Donor For Their Dad

A dad-of-six is claiming a miracle after his children found him a desperately needed kidney donation at the last minute. Joe Schmidt, 38, and his family pose in undated photo. The man from the state of Wisconsin, USA, received a kidney transplant on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. You might consider…

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February 2, 2023
Read more about the article SISTER ACT: Little Sis Saves Big Sis After Being Conceived Via In Vitro Fertilisation To Be Bone Marrow Donor
Diama Ndiaye, 11, with her mother, Oulimata Ndiaye, 33, and her sister Sokhna, 3 pose in undated photo. She was cured of her sickle cell disease, by a umbilical cord and marrow donation her sister who was born from a genetic diagnosis program at the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. (Newsflash)
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SISTER ACT: Little Sis Saves Big Sis After Being Conceived Via In Vitro Fertilisation To Be Bone Marrow Donor

A three-year-old girl has saved her big sister who suffers from a rare disease after she was conceived to be a bone marrow donor for her. Diama Ndiaye, 11, poses in undated photo. She was cured of her sickle cell disease, by a umbilical cord and marrow donation her sister…

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December 16, 2022
Read more about the article NO KID-NEY-ING: Children Find Kidney Donor For Their Dad
Joe Schmidt, 38, and his child pose in undated photo. The man from the state of Wisconsin, USA, received a kidney transplant on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. You might consider blurring the images of the child. (@savedaddy/CEN)
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NO KID-NEY-ING: Children Find Kidney Donor For Their Dad

A dad-of-six is claiming a miracle after his children found him a desperately needed kidney donation at the last minute. Joe Schmidt, 38, was told almost two years ago that his only kidney was failing after he had gifted the other one to his sister in 2008. Joe Schmidt, 38,…

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November 1, 2022
Read more about the article Terminally Ill British Woman With Leukaemia Given Chance At Life By Austrian Stem Cell Donor In Rare 1 In 500,000 Match
Christian M., 31, from Vienna, Austria, did a stem cell donation that helped a young British woman. (Osterreichisches Rotes Kreuz ORK-Elisabeth Geibegger/Newsflash)
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Terminally Ill British Woman With Leukaemia Given Chance At Life By Austrian Stem Cell Donor In Rare 1 In 500,000 Match

A terminally ill British woman with leukaemia now has a chance to be saved after an Austrian man registered as a stem cell donor and the two matched in a rare case, with odds of them being compatible at 1 in 500,000. The donor, who has been named only as…

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January 30, 2022