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Black History Month 2020: Melat’s story
30 October 2020Melat Haileselasse is a staff nurse working on the surgical ward at Royal Papworth Hospital, caring for patients who have just undergone major operations. Here she talks about her journey from Ethiopia to Cambridge.
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'Surgeons' series concludes with high-risk dilemmas
26 October 2020In the fourth and final episode, 75-year-old Maureen undergoes complex cardiac surgery to repair an enlarged aorta – the body’s largest blood vessel.
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‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection
26 October 2020Tissue donated to Royal Papworth Hospital has been used to grow ‘mini-lungs’, which was then infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, to see how the human body responds in the early stages following infection.
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Black History Month 2020: Making positive changes
22 October 2020Judy Machiwenyika is chair of Royal Papworth Hospital's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network. She discusses the barriers black people face at work and what is being done to address those issues.
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Official topping-out ceremony held for new Heart and Lung Research Institute as construction nears halfway stage
21 October 2020The Institute will create the largest cardiothoracic centre for research, education, industry collaboration and clinical care in Europe.
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Lung transplant to feature in next episode of BBC documentary series ‘Surgeons: At the Edge of Life’
16 October 2020David Halsey’s double lung transplant at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge will be broadcast in episode three of the BBC Two programme on Tuesday 20 October
