CCTV-America |
Colombia to make organ donations obligatory by default
CCTV-America In 2014, the Colombian National Health Institute reported that the amount of people who signed up to be organ donors fell by 15 percent. Colombia was facing an organ donor shortage, so Congress decided to take action. CCTV’s Michelle Begue reports from … |
ETHealthWorld.com85% of Liver transplant donors in India are living donorsETHealthWorld.comIn 2014 alone, 155 deceased organ donors were responsible for giving a new lease of life to more than 500 people in the state. This is the highest number of dona…
Post-Bulletin |
Mayo at forefront of transplants
Post-Bulletin … for liver transplants from living donors – it reported 21 such procedures in 2015. Kidney transplant volume increased 22 percent and liver transplant volume grew by 12 percent in the last year, including from both living and deceased donors … |
The Japan Times |
Hatoyama dreams of a Japan anchored within a united Asia
The Japan Times Most of the money came from his mother, the wealthy heiress to the Bridgestone empire, though ¥400 million of this was listed as coming from fictitious donors — including some who were deceased. While Hatoyama denied personal knowledge of the … |
The Newark Advocate |
Community leader remembered 70 years after her death
The Newark Advocate John is now deceased. Joanie Fraher Edwards Kelley organized a 2005 family reunion in Granville to mark a hundred years of Granville’s centennial boulder placement atop Sugar Loaf. Burton and Dora Howland Case were donors of the monument in 1905. |
MassLive.com |
Concord teacher Kara Bochicchio turns to social media to find kidney …
MassLive.com “At my transplant hospital, Massachusetts General in Boston, my estimated waiting time for a deceased donor kidney is five to seven years,” she explains. She goes on to say that a living donor transplant is “significantly more likely to work better and … |
The News-Press |
Cape Coral woman hopes someone can spare a kidney
The News-Press Even with the rejection episode that precipitated the decline of Tuff’s transplanted kidney, a kidney transplanted from a deceased donor only lasts, on average, 10 years. A kidney transplanted from a living donor usually lasts 15 to 20 years, said … |
Huffington Post |
How to Best Increase Life Saving Organ Donations
Huffington Post An organ transplant is often a patient’s last hope for life, and it is well known that there are an insufficient number of organs being donated from living or deceased donors. The wealthy always have the option of avoiding long waiting lists by finding … |
Mail Tribune |
How Much Would You Pay For A Kidney?
Outlook India Since 1994 it has been illegal to sell organs; the law only allows donations from deceased persons or a set of living donors. Not surprisingly, implementation of the law has been a failure. Every few years, there’s a scandal where vulnerable people are … Cape Coral woman hopes someone can spare a kidneyThe News-Press Rogue Valley organ donors give gift of lifeMail Tribune |
shropshirestar.comOrgan transplant numbers on the rise nationwideColumbus DispatchThe pool of potential donors has been growing, in part because U.S. transplant programs are becoming more comfortable in handling older, deceased donors, said Dr. Todd Pe…