Seven-month-old Veronica Bazouni had not long to live when she was saved by a liver transplant. "She's very lucky to be alive,'' Royal Children's Hospital liver transplant program head Associate Prof Winita Hardikar said. When a donor liver became available, the Essendon infant was in end-stage liver failure ...more

FLETCHER McLoughlan is high on life at last. He has been cured of a rare immune deficiency, thanks to the success of a long, exhausting search for a bone marrow donor. Doctors scoured the globe to find a match for Fletcher, 5, eventually finding a young man in Europe ...more