The State Journal-Register |
Ameren employee honored for donating kidney to stranger
The State Journal-Register The Botsford family wasn’t able to find a living donor among relatives. Wanting to find a living donor elsewhere and help Stewart avoid the average five-year wait for a kidney from a deceased donor, the family had window signs created that were posted … |
The Daily Progress |
Health: Exploring ways to use kidneys from hepatitis C patients
The Daily Progress Pilot studies are underway at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University to test transplanting kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C into recipients who don’t already have that virus. If the groundbreaking research eventually … |
The Daily Progress |
Health: Experiment explores ways to stop wasting kidneys from hepatitis C patients
The Daily Progress Pilot studies are underway at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University to test transplanting kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C into recipients who don’t already have that virus. If the groundbreaking research eventually … |
National Organ Transplant Unit: 1500 sign up as kidney donorsTrinidad GuardianOnly 17 people in this country have to date donated their kidneys following their death, according to statistics from the National Organ Transplant Unit (Notu). Those 17 dece…
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Living organ donation meeting set for Nov. 10
Community journal For example, if the group Ultimate Gift of Life has an event to educate people about organ donation after one’s death, Bressler would like to see one or two volunteers to also go to explain “living donation” to people at the same event. He said … |
Fox 59 |
Study finds Americans would be more likely to donate a kidney if offered $50K
Fox 59 However, Dr. Taber said there is one solution staring at us in the face right now: if more people gave organs through deceased donation, he said, the wait list would be gone. For Korporal, someone’s gift changed her life. Even though she sits on that … |
WISN MilwaukeeEllen DeGeneres has surprise for teacher who will donate kidney to studentWISN MilwaukeeTHE OUTCOME FOR KIDNEY RECIPIENTS ARE MUCH BETTER WHEN THERE IS A LIVING DONOR AND FALL VERSUS A DECEASED DONOR. I HAVE PEOPLE SAY TO ME WHAT IF ONE O…
The Lacombe Globe |
Marking the struggle of diabetes
The Lacombe Globe Blank said she wants people to look at her work, and the submissions from others, and realize the importance of both education and research into finding a cure. “Insulin is not a cure. Pancreas and islet transplants can only be done from deceased donors. |
HealthlinePatients Willing to Accept Donated Kidneys Infected with Hepatitis CHealthlineResearchers plan on transplanting kidneys from deceased donors infected with hepatitis C into 10 people on the kidney transplant waiting list who do not have the vi…
Oxfordshire GuardianChilton teenager given posthumous honour for organ donationOxfordshire GuardianDuring 2015/16 the number of deceased donors in the UK went up from 1,282 to 1,364, a rise of six per cent. But there are still about 6,500 people on the…