08Nov/13

NHS in push to boost organ donor rates – The Guardian


The Guardian

NHS in push to boost organ donor rates
The Guardian
Only a third of the population, and a quarter of actual donors, are on the organ donor register, while “barely half of the consents and authorisations received are based on a clear knowledge of the patients’ wishes to be an organ donor“. Only 57% of
Posthumous award ceremony for organ donorsThe Northern Echo

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08Nov/13

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (Nov. 8) – Targeted News Service (subscription)

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (Nov. 8)
Targeted News Service (subscription)
8 — Genomics USA, Hoffman Estates, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,575,325) developed by four co-inventors for a “population scale HLA-typing and uses thereof.” The co-inventors are Krishna Jayaraman, Hoffman Estates, Ill., Rahul Mitra, Pearland, 

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