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27Mar/17

San Antonio Live Donor Kidney Transplant Program Ranked #1 In The Country – PharmiWeb.com (press release)

San Antonio Live Donor Kidney Transplant Program Ranked #1 In The Country
PharmiWeb.com (press release)
With this milestone, the San Antonio program became the first ever to perform more than 200 live donor kidney transplants in one year. The private community hospital’s transplant teams also set program records for deceased donor kidney transplants (158

26Mar/17

Column: Expressing the need for organ donation in the US – Fredericksburg.com


Evening Telegraph

Column: Expressing the need for organ donation in the US
Fredericksburg.com
I SAT in a hospital bed in The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for hours recently preparing, mentally and physically, to receive a kidney. After I had been on the National Kidney Transplant List for almost a year, a match was finally found from a
Dundee ‘hypochondriac’, 67, donates kidney to a stranger. ‘Well, why wouldn’t I?’Evening Telegraph

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24Mar/17

Cowichan woman with rare disease must raise $15K for post-transplant care – Ladysmith Chronicle

Cowichan woman with rare disease must raise $15K for post-transplant care
Ladysmith Chronicle
Currently, according to BC Transplant, 15 liver transplants from deceased donors have been completed in 2017 while another 24 people such as Williams are on the wait list. “It just kind of makes you sad because your life depends on someone else,” she