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  • NHSBT and Facebook colaborate to encourage organ donation - 01.05.12

    A new collaboration to help boost the number of people on the Organ Donor Register was announced today by NHS Blood and...

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  • One kidney, three bodies, in two weeks. - 26.04.12

    • Kidney donated by Cera Fearing, 21 to her brother Ray, 27• After Ray's body rejected transplant, kidney ...

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  • FDA announces plans to pilot end-stage kidney disease technology in new program - 25.04.12

    Innovation Pathway aims to reduce time and cost of bringing safe and effective, breakthrough technologies to patients. ...

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  • Transplantable Blood Vessels Woven from Lab-Grown Human Tissue - 23.04.12

    More than 382,000 people with kidney disease in the U.S. are on dialysis, a painful procedure that can wreak havoc on b...

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  • New renal unit in Llandrindod cuts patient journey time - 26.03.12

    A renal unit set up to reduce the journey times for dialysis patients by up to an hour has opened.The unit at Ll...

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  • GWYN IS STILL WALKING TALL - 20.03.12

    25 years ago Gwyn Parry from Gwaenysgor, near Prestatyn, received a life saving kidney transplant. This year he will b...

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  • Walk For Life 2012 - 19.03.12

    Once again people all across Wales will be putting their best foot forward to help raise much needed funds. K...

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  • First Kidney Transplant - 16.03.12

    This may be an old article first published December 2011 but it is such an interesting read I thought it should be rep...

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  • Northern Ireland debates Opt Out - 19.02.12

    The UUP's John McCallister calls for organ donation opt-out system. The deputy leader of the UUP has called for r...

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  • Church leader supports opt-out organ donation - 31.01.12

    The General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of Wales (PCW) is supporting the proposed changes to the law on organ ...

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  • Public Consultation Meetings - Organ and Tissue Donation White Paper - 15.11.11

    Please contact the CHCs to register interest on 0845 644 7814 or enquiries@waleschc.org.ukABERAVON - Wednes...

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  • Opt Out organ donation Welsh Government White Paper - 08.11.11

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  • Protect yourself from flu this winter - 05.10.11

    Having your annual flu jab before winter arrives is your best defence to prevent flu. This is the message from the Bets...

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  • Rate of organ donation higher in Wales than rest of UK, research says. - 03.10.11

    There is significant variation across the UK in the number of organs donated for transplant, research suggests.

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  • Archbishop of Wales under fire over 'un-Christian' views on presumed consent. - 26.09.11

    TRANSPLANT patients have described the Archbishop of Wales' views on presumed consent for organ donation as “un-Chris...

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  • British woman asks for kidney online - 29.08.11

    A British woman is set to become the first to receive a kidney after advertising for a donor on an American website

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  • From Doctor to Donor - 21.08.11

    Independent.co.ukFrom doctor to donor: How does a renal consultant ...

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  • Transplant surgeon's call for donors before retiring - 03.07.11

    Transplant surgeon's call for donors before retiringA leading surgeon who performed Europe's first successful heart-lung t...

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  • Australians achieve kidney stem cell world-first - 18.05.11

    MELBOURNE: With their wizardly power to conjure up any type of body tissue, embryonic stem cells promise spare parts fo...

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  • An apple a day could keep kidney disease at bay - 20.04.11

    New research funded by Kidney Research UK has found that foods containing pectin, such as apples, oranges and jam, coul...

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  • Why it's never to early to wear sun cream - 19.04.11

    IT may not yet be Easter, but soaring spring temperatures have led to warnings that the suncream should most definitely...

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  • Politicians urged to exercise caution over organ donation - 17.04.11

    EACH of the four main political parties has pledged to use Wales’ new law-making powers to change the organ donation ...

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  • Kidneys are created in stem cell breakthrough - 11.04.11

    It raises hopes that kidney disease patients will one day be able to grow their own new organs with no risk of rejectio...

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  • Newport pair start bike tour of Transporter Bridges - 04.04.11

    A NEWPORT woman who has undergone four kidney transplants set off on a challenge to ride across seven transporter bridg...

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  • Record numbers in Walk for Life - 29.03.11

    Supporters of Kidney Wales gathered in record numbers at Ammanford on Sunday to take part in the charity's annual Walk ...

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  • Health Minister to open Cardiff Transplant Unit - 29.03.11

    Health Minister Edwina Hart will today [Wednesday, 30 March] officially open the new kidney transplant centre at the Un...

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  • Blood test to spot diabetes - 22.03.11

    LONDON: Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have suggested that measuring the levels of small mol...

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  • Mentors for Pre-diabetes patients - 22.03.11

    Researchers in Norfolk are beginning a £2m project to screen 10,000 people who are at high risk of type 2 diabetes.

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  • People Like Us Cymru goes live. - 10.03.11

    Kidney Wales launches bilingual patient support website A new website dedicated to people with kidney disease ...

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  • World's first tissue-engineered urethras hailed success - 09.03.11

    The world's first tissue-engineered urinary tubes or urethras, grown in the lab using patients' own cells, have been ha...

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  • Health minister Hart drops organ donation request - 09.03.11

    The assembly government has withdrawn a request to the UK government for permission to introduce presumed conse...

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  • New dialysis unit for Powys - 13.12.10

    Health Minister, Edwina Hart has announced funding for dialysis services in north Powys after a long battle by local ki...

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Kidney Wales Foundation

Tel (029) 20 343 940
www.kidneywales.com

Carers Wales

Tel 0808 808 7777
www.carerswales.org

NHS Direct

Tel 0845 4647
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

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