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A team of 30 Spanish doctors say they have successfully performed the world’s first full face transplant. A man injured in a shooting accident received the entire facial skin and muscles – including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth – of a donor. The man is recovering well...

The mother of a toddler with a rare liver disease who underwent two transplants is campaigning to raise funds to help other children. Ava Raffour, now a year old, suffered cardiac arrests and organ failure, leaving her family fearing the worst. But her mother Laura Thomas, of Cardiff, said...

By Helen BriggsHealth reporter, BBC News A mother has become the first in the world to give birth to a second child after an ovary transplant operation, doctors in Denmark have revealed. Baby Lucca and sister Aviaja are among just nine children born through the procedure, where ovarian tissue...

A pioneering procedure has allowed a British woman to get a new kidney from her sister – even though the organ would normally be rejected. Maxine Bath had been kept alive by dialysis, and had no matching donors in her family. However, doctors in Coventry used a technique called...