Otago Daily TimesFemale drivers more likely to donate organsOtago Daily TimesMrs Lloyd, of Outram, said she had had four kidney transplants since 1981 and the first three were taken from deceased donors. She had the first kidney for a couple of months,…
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Life is Beautiful
northernexpress.com Neither McLaren Northern Michigan or Munson Healthcare perform organ transplants from either living or deceased donors. Both, however, work in conjunction with Gift of Life, Michigan’s only federally designated organ and tissue recovery program. LeDoux: are you standing in some terminal line?Opelousas Daily World |
NEWS.com.auAdelaide Film Festival to host premiere of organ donation film Dying to LiveNEWS.com.auTheir collective fight for life and the gift of life after death will be shared on Monday evening at the SA premiere of organ donation documentary Dying t…
Times Record NewsFormer NFL defensive end, Wichita Falls football star Armonty Bryant in need of kidney donorTimes Record NewsHe was forced to retire from the NFL because of his kidney disease. His kidneys are functioning at nine percent, which makes h…
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Rush Transplant Survival Rates Above Expectations
Newswise (press release) “The liver transplant program has a one-year patient survival rate of 95.45 percent, and the deceased donor kidney program has a one-year patient survival of 96.92 percent. While these rates makes Rush’s program unique to Chicago and among the nation’s … |
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Donate an organ and give the gift of life
The Island Now “There are currently over 120,000 people waiting for organ transplants in the United States,” said Teperman, “and only 18,000 deceased donors. What that means, quite simply, is that we don’t have enough organs to fill the need. We know that … |
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South Africa makes second surgical history after the world’s first penis transplant in 2014
Face2Face Africa South Africa has previously chalked successes in transplants between people with HIV but what makes this operation different is the fact that it is the first liver donation from a living HIV-positive donor in the country as previous donors were … |
Offaly ExpressOffaly organ donors take part in annual service of thanksgivingOffaly Express… on Saturday 6th October to honour organ donors and their families. At the ecumenical Service were courageous families of deceased organ donors and living don…
ABC NewsKidneys for sale: Cash-strapped Indonesians turn to Facebook to sell organsABC NewsIn 2017, there were 510 deceased and 273 living organ donors; Around 1,400 Australians are currently waitlisted for a transplant; 1 in 3 Australians are register…
Our View: Transplants: The need still outstrips the supplyMankato Free PressLiving donations are relatively rare, and the donor incredibly selfless. Most transplanted organs come from a deceased donor. And the hard fact is, not enough of us are donors….