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Daniel McAvoy, three, was born in the spring of 2019 and weeks later was diagnosed with a rare blood disease his family feared he would not survive - had spent previous Christmases in the hospital → Read More
Wendy and Richard Caulkin met at the British Transplant Games nine years ago, having both received life-saving transplants. Wendy was given a heart, while Richard got a new pair of lungs → Read More
Sue Bennett was emotional when she met Sharron Jones for the first time. They talked about Sharron's daughter Amy, whose liver saved Sue's life, after her own life was cut short by an epileptic seizure → Read More
Natalie Bailey and her mum Jane both received heart transplants within weeks of little Maggie Lawry's birth. Jane was given a new heart in October 2020 after 13 months on the transplant waiting list → Read More
Jeff Astle's daughter Dawn made a promise while her dad's body lay in the chapel of rest 20 years ago. Dementia stole all Jeff’s memories of his football career, during which he scored over 200 goals → Read More
An organ donor saved Martha's life when she was just a baby - but 16 years later her heart is failing again and she needs a second transplant to stay alive → Read More
By supporting the Mirror’s Christmas Appeal, you can help to light up the lives of more children like Amber who has life-limiting Batten disease a few months after her brother was too → Read More
Anthony Nolan’s struggle with deadly Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome and his mum Shirley’s tireless campaign to save him by finding a suitable bone marrow donor moved the world → Read More
John Stiles produced a pamphlet highlighting research into how years of heading footballs could damage the brain and visited his former club Doncaster Rovers to hand out the leaflets → Read More
Richard Gibson had to smile through the pain at his daughter's wedding but shortly after he got life changing news that a donor had been found and he spent the next day in surgery for 21 hours → Read More
Vinnie Holliday is one of the 200 children waiting for transplants. And because donor organs are in such short supply, he could be waiting up to three years for a new heart → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Darren Atkinson's daughters Emily and Poppy both have cystinosis, a rare disease that causes harmful crystals to form in their bodies → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: The Law For Life change, which brought about the new opt-out donor register after years of campaigning by the Mirror, has given a double gift of life for mum Jackie and daughter Poppy → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Concussions and head injuries are blamed by the group of 40 former players who are preparing to sue the game’s governing body, the Rugby Football League, for negligence → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Brave Hudson Pirrie has been kept alive with oxygen and drugs after he was diagnosed with an enlarged heart at just five months old - and there are others like him who need help → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Surgeons fear they only have till May to perform the procedure - not funded on the NHS - on 12-year-old award-winning ice skater Macy before her back bends too far → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Two years after Sean Haycock helped Anne Bentley beat leukaemia she found out that she wasn't the only person enjoying a new lease of life thanks to his generosity → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: 'Happy, bubbly' Georgia Kirchin just wants to be able to walk with her big sister Millie, who has asked Santa for a new heart to end her parents' 'nightmare' → Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Pescod, 20, from Sunderland, almost died when her organs failed on Christmas Eve last year as doctors desperately searched for a donor heart during the New Year → Read More
EXCLUSIVE New figures show there are on average 20 more headers per game than the 1960s, 70s or 80s, which could have a worrying impact on health over time → Read More