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12Aug/16

New York medical schools will stop using unclaimed bodies from medical examiner – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV


New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

New York medical schools will stop using unclaimed bodies from medical examiner
New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV
The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office started providing schools with unclaimed bodies 40 years ago because of a shortage of donors for medical research, ASMNY said. Schools last received bodies from the medical examiner in 2014, but only 20 of the 800 …

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12Aug/16

Multiple factors lead to Dawson man’s plan to give kidney to stranger in Chicago – The State Journal-Register


The State Journal-Register

Multiple factors lead to Dawson man’s plan to give kidney to stranger in Chicago
The State Journal-Register
With no relatives turning out to be matches and Stewart facing an average wait of five years for a kidney from a deceased donor, Laura didn’t want her husband to be one of the 200 to 300 Illinoisans who die each year waiting for a transplant

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11Aug/16

INVESTIGATION: Coincidence Or Conspiracy? The Bodies Pile Up Around Bill And Hillary – Western Journalism


Western Journalism

INVESTIGATION: Coincidence Or Conspiracy? The Bodies Pile Up Around Bill And Hillary
Western Journalism
On August 2nd, Shawn Lucas — working on behalf of the Bernie Sanders campaign and upset supporters — was found dead on a bathroom floor Lucas had just served the DNC a month earlier (July 2nd) with a lawsuit filed by donors to the Vermont Senator …

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11Aug/16

Dengue alert! Over 100 fresh cases in last 24 hours, create panic in Bengal – Economic Times


Economic Times

Dengue alert! Over 100 fresh cases in last 24 hours, create panic in Bengal
Economic Times
“Organ donation is driven by altruism. Most donors, many of them accident victims with head injuries, land up in government hospitals where organs are harvested. Recipients are mostly in corporate hospitals as there aren’t enough transplant centres in

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