Spain, organ donation champion of the world
BioEdge
Spain is leading the world in deceased organ donation. An article in the American Journal of Transplantation explains how this happened. In 1989, the Spanish Ministry of Health created the Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT), a technical agency …
Another Record Year for Organ Transplants | Medpage TodayMedPage Today
Organ transplants increased almost 20 percent since 2012 …NephrologyNews.com

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Organ donation surge gave miracle gift
Courier Mail
Less than a year after an independent review into Australia’s poor organ donation rates called for an overhaul of system, the number of deceased donors jumped 16 per cent — from 435 in 2015 to 503 last year. A record 406 of Victoria’s sickest patients …

A living kidney donor writes: ‘We need to encourage more donors – living or deceased‘
thejournal.ie
Getting yourself on the deceased donors list is generally the first step. However there is approximately a three-year wait for a deceased kidney donor and that all depends on finding a compatible kidney. A kidney from a living donor offers a much …

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A living kidney donor writes: ‘We need to encourage more donors …
thejournal.ie
Living donor kidney transplants are growing in number here. Donors can be family members, friends or even altruistic donors, writes Enda Fanning.

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Organ transplants, deceased donors set record in 2016
Medical Xpress
UAB’s numbers are up in part because of the Alabama Organ Center’s record year, which saw 153 organ donors donate 425 organs upon death—a 24 percent increase from 2015. Nationwide, 33,606 transplants were reported to UNOS, representing an 8.5 …
Organ transplants in Wisconsin reach a record highSuperior Telegram
Organ Transplants In Wisconsin Reached A Record High In 2016 …WisContext
Agoura couple champions organ donationsAgoura Hills Acorn
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Now, Doctors Will Remind Families To Donate Organs Of Their Deceased Loved Ones
NDTV
Mumbai: Doctors in India will now get text alerts reminding them to ask families to donate organs of their deceased loved ones as part of a nationwide campaign to solve the country’s organ shortage that has fuelled a black market trade in organs …
IMA launches Poochna Mat Bhoolo-organ donation awareness drive to check black market tradeMedical Dialogues

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Birmingham transplant lab worker now part of UAB’s world-record kidney chain
Birmingham Times
For heart, lung and deceased–donor transplants, lab technologists examine each individual pair to look for pre-formed antibodies to the donor and analyze the risk. Zhuo Tao, M.D., associate director of the lab, and Hauptfeld then make the final review.

Castlegar family go online for live kidney donor to save son
The Province
In 2016, 160 transplants were performed with kidneys from deceased donors, and 92 for transplants from living donors. “Our push is for Zachary, to get him healthy and find him a kidney, but it’s also to increase organ donation,” said Tremblay, who …

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Doctors cut transplant wait list times with infected kidneys
WCVB Boston
“We found that if he were in a position for us to be able to offer him a deceased donor kidney from a hepatitis C-positive donor, he would progress on the list much, much faster,” Strom said. That’s because the number of infected kidneys available for …