New York Times |
An Australian Town’s Rare Mix: Dinosaur Bones and Opalized Pine Cones
New York Times “It was like experiencing a fold in time,” Ms. Brammall said, “like reaching back 110 million years to just after its death and the last time it saw light.” Ms. Brammall found the toe bone in 1996, when she was a student paleontologist. That dinosaur … |
The Artificial Pancreas is Coming, and Other Highlights from ADA 2016A Sweet LifeThere are close to three million people with type 1 diabetes and nearly 30 million with type 2 in America alone, but there are only about 7,000 to 8,000 deceased human don…
Glasgow Evening Times |
Labour MSP launches fresh bid for opt-out transplant system in Scotland
Glasgow Evening Times A LABOUR MSP whose dad after waiting ten years for a heart transplant is to re-launch a bill to change Scotland’s donor registration system. Mark Griffin has set out his plans to bring back a … “Taking the most recent figures, this could mean an … Fort’s Stedman receives gift of life with kidneyDaily Union |
Balkan Insight |
New Organ Donation System Divides Montenegro
Balkan Insight Responding to complaints of human rights violations, the government last Friday said that presumed consent means that, before taking the organs of the deceased person, a clinical coordinator will be required to check for the existence of any “rejection … |
KLAS-TV |
Saving knees with Allograft
KLAS-TV It involves transplanting cartilage and bone from a deceased donor. “The same donor who has heart and liver and lung donation at the time of death also donates parts such as cartilage,” Dr. Cole told Ivanhoe. Surgeons make a small incision in the knee … |
Benefit held to help children of deceased Midland womanNewsWest9.comIn life, Kathy Lujan did everything she could to take care of her children. Now after her passing, her friends are attempting to do the job for her. Lujan was known as the Cookie lady …
USA TODAY High School Sports |
Winningest wrestler in Rutgers Prep (N.J.) history receives life-saving kidney donation from fiancée
USA TODAY High School Sports “I’m pursuing a living donation because a kidney from a living donor lasts about twice as long as one from a deceased donor, and the wait for a deceased donor could be five to 10 years,” Brett wrote on his Facebook page at the time of his diagnosis … |
KJZZ |
Organ Transplant Surgery: How Death Can Sometimes Mean New Life
KJZZ Families of deceased donors have the final word on whether or not to meet. “Just to find the right words to thank someone for such an amazing gift is very difficult,” said Thompson. “To show our gratitude and thank this wonderful family for giving us a … |
Stuff.co.nz |
Plan to save McLean’s Mansion as art gallery and tourist attraction
Stuff.co.nz First they are urgently seeking philanthropic donors to help raise $2.5m to buy the Manchester St property. Lord said he … The group said it already had the agreement of prominent New Zealand artists, and the estates of deceased artists, to display … |
Mic |
This Australian Woman Is Going Viral on Reddit for Donating a Kidney to Her Boyfriend
Mic Living donor kidneys, aka organs donated by someone who’s still alive rather than from an anonymous deceased donor, last longer and provide better health benefits to the recipient. According to the National Kidney Registry, around 5,000 Americans … |