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Revolutionary treatment transforms mother's life
The first Scot to receive a revolutionary cell transplant to treat diabetes has described how the operation is transforming her life after 32 years of suffering.
- 6th July 2011
I didn't want him to go through this but I agreed for Liyana
A wife receives husband's kidney - and the gift of life.
- 6th July 2011
Sign up to Save a Life During National Transplant Week
Monday 4th July marks the start of National Transplant Week and NHS Lothian is asking people in Lothian to support its "Sign up to Save a Life" campaign by registering as organ donors.
- 4th July 2011
Organ donation drive boosts numbers in Lothian joining the register
More than 10,000 people in Lothian have chosen to 'Sign Up to Save a Life' in support of NHS Lothian's organ donation campaign.
See also: Give me back the Gift of Life: Edinburgh Evening News.
- 29th March 2011
Bride receives kidney as wedding present
A high-powered US lawyer has given his young Scots niece an amazing, life-saving gift - one of his kidneys.
Roxan Buys walked down the aisle on Friday thanks to the remarkable act of kindness by a relative on the other side of the Atlantic.
- 20th February 2011
NHS Lothian Launch Organ Donation App
NHS Lothian has become the first health board in Scotland to create an iphone application (app). The app makes it easy for potential donors to join the National Register while on the go, and to find out more about organ donation and transplantation in Lothian.
- 14th February 2011
Make it your New Year's resolution to "Sign Up to Save a Life"
People living in Lothian are being urged to make a life saving New Year's resolution this January, by joining the National Organ Donor Register. Increasing the number of people on the Organ Donor Register will give more hope to patients waiting for a life-saving transplant in 2011.
- 12th January 2011
Surgeons at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh give gift of life by performing 15 transplants in 15 days
Fourteen patients have undergone 15 life saving transplants in 15 days, thanks to organ donors who have "Signed Up to Save a Life".
- 29th November 2010
50th anniversary of first UK live donor kidney transplant
One of the UK's first transplant patients returned to The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to mark the 50th anniversary of the lifesaving surgery.
- 28th October 2010