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Cadavers Are the ‘Silent Teachers’ of Tomorrow’s Doctors
Sixth Tone As many Chinese believe in an afterlife, cultural norms dictate that a deceased person’s body should remain intact, and thus body donation is unpopular. But slowly, norms are changing, and laws are making it easier to donate one’s body to medical research. |
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NJ Proposal To Offer Tax Credits For Organ Donation Met With Skepticism
CBS New York Under the proposed legislation, a deceased donor’s tax credit would go to the estate. In addition, anyone who donates blood would receive a one time $100 tax credit. Cardinale says he’s been met with varying degrees of skepticism. Some donor groups … Living donor Viv makes appealFingal Independent Support sought for Organ Donor Awareness WeekDublin People Florida Tax Offices Support ‘Donate Life’ In AprilWUWF Donegal Democrat –The White House (blog) –Creators Syndicate all 58 news articles » |
Renal and Urology NewsDonor-Recipient Weight, Sex Mismatch Ups Graft LossRenal and Urology NewsOf 115,124 deceased donor kidney recipients from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients 2000 to 2014, 21,261 experienced graft failure after a medi…
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‘After the transplant, I looked in the mirror and my eyes weren’t yellow anymore, they were white’
thejournal.ie The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) has instead called for an organ donor registry to be set up to “increase the number of deceased organ donors”, in line with the HSE’s National Consent Policy. Speaking at the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week, IKA … |
Fingal IndependentAndrew Adkins: Donating life one of the best decisionsThe IndependentThe vast majority of deceased organ donors were declared brain dead at the time, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A person is ruled bra…
Santa Rosa Press DemocratSanta Rosa dad hates to ask, but he really needs a kidneySanta Rosa Press DemocratBut Lazovick knows that many potential transplant recipients die or become too ill for the surgery before they rise to the top of the list. The N…
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‘Helen didn’t have a peaceful death, she wanted to live so much’
thejournal.ie In 2016, 280 organ transplants were carried out in Ireland – 230 from 77 deceased donors and the remaining 50 from living kidney donors. About 600 people in Ireland are currently waiting for life-saving heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas transplants. |
NorthJersey.com |
Social media helping match donors with patients in need of kidneys
NorthJersey.com “It’s amazing to see the outcome, these people become a part of our family,” Flood said about both the recipients and the donors. April is organ donor awareness month, and people sign up for to be deceased donors when they die. But people don’t have to … |
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Livingston County woman, 7 weeks after transplant, gives back with ‘Catwalk for Kidneys’ fashion show
The Livingston County News Only one donated kidney is needed to replace two failed kidneys, which makes living-donor kidney transplant – about one-third of all kidney transplants – an alternative to deceased–donor kidney transplant. Benefits to a living-donor kidney transplant … |
At UPMC, organ donors lauded as Donate Life Month kicks offTribune-ReviewDolence addressed a crowd of about 75 people at UPMC Montefiore, most of whom have been affected by organ transplantation: surgeons, researchers and nurses, living donors, the fam…