Mansfield resident Norman Tomlinson attended an awards ceremony organised by the NHS Blood and Transplant team on Wednesday ...

Nearly one in three kidney transplants come from a living donor, and some of those involve complex three-way swaps between ...

A cyber attack has forced a US non-profit blood donor centre to postpone appointments despite declaring blood shortages just ...

Read about exa-cel being rolled out on the NHS, providing a 'functional cure' for some patients with severe sickle cell ...

A girl who spent nearly two years in hospital waiting for a heart transplant is now back home and celebrating her fourth ...

Hundreds of potential kidney donors of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage can now get a simple blood test to help reduce the risk of kidney failure. The test is part of national genetic ...

Cord blood banking involves collecting blood left in your newborn's umbilical cord and placenta and storing it for future ...

A plaque at the centre recognises Dame Elizabeth’s lifelong commitment to improving the care of people living with sickle ...

Each year around 1,000 people choose to donate one of their kidneys - people with two parents of Black African and Black ...

Uqbah Muhammad is caught in a relentless cycle between the walls of hospital and the walls of her home. Kidney dialysis isn’t ...

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