Wall Street Journal (blog) |
At A Glance The Math of Retirement Saving and Spending
Wall Street Journal (blog) That’s because, unlike lump-sum gifts paid at a donor’s death, such “venture philanthropy” can be funded over several years and overseen by the fund’s trustee(s) who are charged with carrying out the elderly or deceased donor’s vision and intentions. |
Star2.comA gift of life from one HIV patient to anotherStar2.comIn a first that gives HIV-positive patients yet another chance for long lives, surgeons at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in the United States have transplanted a kidney and a liv…
Nature.comTransplantation: Survival benefits of incompatible living donor kidney transplantsNature.comThe survival of the HLA-antibody-incompatible recipients 8 years after transplantation was superior to that of matched control patients who remained o…
Valley NewsA Question of ConsentValley NewsRussian law explicitly allows doctors to take organs from deceased patients without informing their families. Sablina sued for damages in five Russian courts and has lost every challenge. … More than a dozen…
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Thousands die waiting for organ donations, seminar told
DAWN.com Many ohters have died waiting. But society is unmoved: senior doctors (often) do not declare brain death or, if they do, they usually don’t talk to the family concerned and seek their consent for deceased organ donation; the clergy do not make any … |
Fresno Bee (blog) |
Gift of life: Kidney donation links two of Valley’s best-known golf families
Fresno Bee (blog) In 2014, 17,107 kidney transplants were performed in the United States, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Of those, 11,570 came from deceased donors and 5,537 from living ones. Only a small fraction of the living-donor donations – Dhingra … |
Medical Daily |
Ohio Man Undergoes Successful Kidney Transplant After Organ Donor Replies To Message On SUV
Medical Daily According to the Dispatch, the average wait time for an organ from a deceased donor is nearly three years at the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, where Raisman underwent the transplant. The wait time for a living donor is about five … |
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Quark Pharmaceuticals to use TGI’s TruGraf blood test in phase 3 study of QPI-1002 in DGF
pharmabiz.com The increasing shortage of suitable kidney donors led to the necessity of incorporating expanded criteria donor kidneys (mainly from older deceased donors) into the donor pool. However, such kidneys are at increased risk of DGF. There is no currently … |
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Karnataka to soon get SOTTO for cadaveric organ transplantation
The Hindu In the run up to the setting up of SOTTO, Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka for Transplantation (ZCCK) organised a workshop ‘Deceased Donor Transplant Programme: Learning and Moving Forward’, in the city on Friday. At the meeting … |
Philanthropy Magazine |
Briefly Noted
Philanthropy Magazine What was perhaps even more plucky than de Blasio asking donors to bail out a dysfunctional government agency was the supportive rationale offered by the New York Times in its story announcing the initiative. The Times reporter chirped that “there are … |