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Organ donation – Save the Tin Man

More than 10,000 people currently need an organ transplant in the UK of whom 1,000 a year (3 a day) will die before an organ becomes available. Just one donor can help up to nine different people. NHS Blood and Transplant has kicked started a countdown to their first multi-media UK-wide organ donation campaign on…

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Athlete raising money for meningitis research

18 April 2000 ONE-YEAR-OLD HEART PATIENT LOSES FIGHT FOR LIFE TODDLER Tace Corcoran-Rees has died in hospital after a national appeal failed to find her a heart donor. The one-year-old, from Ely, Cardiff, had been critically ill at the University Hospital of Wales’ paediatric intensive care unit since she was admitted 12 days ago after…

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Heart search for baby heart goes to Europe

12 April 2000 BABY Tace Corcoran-Rees, the one-year-old who desperately needs a new heart, is still clinging to life as the search for a donor organ goes on. Tace, whose condition this morning was described as ‘relatively stable’ in intensive care, is still critically ill. Her doctor, Dr George Finlay at the University Hospital of…

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