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Royal Papworth Hospital's lifesaving heart transplant programme which was the first of its kind in Europe has now been received by over 100 patients.

An essay on the rise and fall of organized anarchism in Japan in the early 20th century, with special emphasis on its anarcho-syndicalist dimension, with interesting details concerning the disputes, splits and controversies that plagued the Japanese movement and which were surprisingly similar in their basic contours to those that affected the anarchist movement in the West during the same period.

The number of people having heart transplants is set to double after experts pioneered a new technique for retrieving organs from donors. Some 200 patients a year undergo the operation on the NHS, but hundreds more remain on waiting lists and about 20 die each year because of a shortage of available hearts. Now medics at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge have developed a new 'heart in a box' device that helps to keep the organs in better condition after they are retrieved from donors, which could double the number of annual transplants. The number of people having heart transplants is set ...