News & Observer |
Kidney transplant from Durham wife Carolyn Lilly Wilson to her …
News & Observer Since Carolyn Lilly Wilson gave her husband, Sean Lilly Wilson, a kidney, the two have become champions for living donation – especially now, during National … |
Durham Herald Sun |
Kidney transplant from Durham wife Carolyn Lilly Wilson to her …
Durham Herald Sun Since Carolyn Lilly Wilson gave her husband, Sean Wilson, a kidney, the two have become champions for living donation – especially now, during National … |
Irish TimesHarris plans opt-out register for transplant donors – The Irish TimesIrish TimesProposals for the creation of an opt-out system of consent for organ donations will be brought to Cabinet shortly, according to Minister for Health Simon Harris….
WBIR-TVPlans to establish child heart transplant programmeIrish TimesFinding deceased donors has become more difficult with the fall in road traffic deaths over recent years, but the living donor programme continues to grow. Last year, there were 77 de…
Financial Times |
Chinese ‘facilitators’ seek boom in organ donors
Financial Times His government-issued card reads “organ donation facilitator”, a thousands-strong new profession created to address the country’s chronic shortage of organs for donation. Just over 4,000 Chinese people donated organs in China last year, while 300,000 … |
Ladysmith Chronicle |
Cowichan woman with rare disease must raise $15K for post …
Ladysmith Chronicle A chocolate Labradoodle puppy fittingly named Makana, or Gift in Hawaiian, rests his head at Natalie Williams’ feet but it’s a phone call the 19-year-old on B.C’s … |
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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 … |
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McHenry County family deals with cancer, transplant
MyWebTimes.com Miles’ liver would come from a deceased donor. “That’s kind of hard to wrap your head around,” Ashley said. “For your child to live, someone is going to have died.” But on the flip side, many people told her that when someone dies, it’s often a gift to … |
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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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 … |