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A 'thankful' mum has praised the 'lifesavers' who donated blood which helped treat her four-year-old daughter from a rare form of cancer.

For the first time in the UK, a woman has given birth following a womb transplant from a living donor.

Deborah Gosling met recipient Corinne Hutton to support the NHS Blood and Transplant campaign for more people to donate organs and tissue to save and improve lives.

A new trial led by NHS Blood and Transplant and Queen Mary University of London has started investigating whether giving a clotting factor to people who bleed after heart surgery will help save and improve more lives.

Paul Laskey, 43, from Newcastle, suffered a severe chemical burn to his eye after an acid attack. Grafts made from the lining of a donated placenta were used to stabilise his eye and avoid further deterioration, to help to save Mr Laskey’s sight.

London’s Air Ambulance, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade have come together to support NHS Blood and Transplant’s appeal for donors.

RESTORE is the first trial in the world to transfuse lab-grown red blood cells into other people and features in The New Yorker magazine.

A plaque honouring the lifesaving work of the country’s first sickle cell nurse counsellor, Dame Elizabeth Anionwu OM, will be unveiled at London’s newest and boldest blood donor centre in the heart of Brixton, on Wednesday 22 January.

NHS Blood and Transplant’s (NHSBT) Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gail Miflin, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to blood and plasma.

The NHS has hailed a fantastic response to the BBC Casualty Christmas special which saw a huge uplift in bookings.

Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape, which could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking.