The Advocate |
Body donor’s selfless act
The Advocate Once the person dies a medical assessment is done to decide if the donor body can be accepted. Donations cannot be accepted if the donor has been deceased more than four days or if the family does not wish to proceed. Acceptance of the donor body can … |
Falkirk HeraldWe need everybody in Scotland on NHS Organ Donor RegisterFalkirk HeraldIn 2017/18 in Scotland, 469 people received a transplant; 375 proceeded using organs from deceased donors, with an additional 94 kidneys provided by living donors to e…
ECNmag.comNew Study Introduces Approach That Can Roughly Double Success Rates Of Kidney TransplantsECNmag.comThere are roughly 100,000 people currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. While the kidney exchange process…
Medical XpressIncrease observed in hearts from drug-intoxicated donorsMedical XpressTo assess annual trends in donor death mechanisms and the impact on post-transplant survival, recipients were propensity-matched in a 1-to-2 ratio (drug-intoxicated-to-…
Plymouth Herald |
More than half of parents wouldn’t donate their children’s organs
Plymouth Herald The shortage of suitable donors means children waiting for an urgent heart transplant will wait two and half times as long as adults waiting on the urgent waiting list. In the last three years, 46 children have died on the transplant waiting list. Of … Living Organ Donations Save Lives. Why Are They So Rare In America?Washington Monthly Children are waiting two and half times longer than adults for life-saving organ donations because parents of a …Daily Mail September 3, 2018 – TwitterTwitter |
Firstpost |
A toddler receives mother’s kidney and part of her liver in pioneering transplant
Firstpost In the past 24 months, it has performed 32 liver or kidney transplants from living donors and 98 from deceased donors. The advantages of laparoscopy include a significant reduction in surgical trauma which reduces the length of time patients need to … |
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Organ donations pick up after a slump
The Hindu After a dip during June and July, in terms of sheer numbers, organ donation began to look up in August in Tamil Nadu. There were 15 donations last month — the second highest since the beginning of this year. According to data available with the … |
The HinduState plugs loopholes in organ transplant programmeThe HinduAs part of measures to streamline the deceased donor transplant programme, the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN) has recently made Aadhaar cards compulsory for Indians to …
Community AdvocateNorthborough man advocates for organ transplant awareness as he himself awaits new kidneyCommunity AdvocateThe majority of transplants come from deceased donors. On average, the website cites, over 3,000 new patients are added to the …
New study introduces approach that can roughly double success rates of kidney transplantsScience DailyThere are roughly 100,000 people currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. While the kidney exchange process increa…