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Organ donation
On the back of the science behind blood transfusions , organ donation was pioneered in 1954 , by Dr Joseph E Murray .
Richard Herrick was dying and his brother Ronald agreed to a trailblazing operation to donate his kidney . The first successful organ transplant gave Richard eight more years of life .
Murray received a Nobel Prize " for discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease ."
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