Niagara Falls Review |
Gift of liver, a gift of life for Peter Brouwer
Niagara Falls Review Peter has been on the Trillium Gift of Life’s wait list for a deceased donor since last spring, a spot he shared with some 245 other people in Ontario who are waiting for a liver. In Ontario, from last January to November, there were 51 living liver … |
St. Catharines Standard |
Gift of liver, a gift of life for Peter Brouwer
St. Catharines Standard Peter has been on the Trillium Gift of Life’s wait list for a deceased donor since last spring, a spot he shared with some 245 other people in Ontario who are waiting for a liver. In Ontario, from last January to November, there were 51 living liver … |
MyCentralJersey.com |
Finding a Living Donor Has Many Advantages for Patients Needing Kidney Transplant
Newswise (press release) “About 5 percent of patients on the transplant list will die each year while waiting for a kidney from a deceased donor,” Knight said. “You can live a perfectly normal life with one kidney, and in most cases, people who love you are more than willing … Grandfather-to-be needs kidney transplantMyCentralJersey.com |
NephrologyNews.comMore than 30000 transplants performed annually in US for first timeNephrologyNews.comThis was the first year that the number of transplants performed exceeded 30,000. Approximately 81% of the transplants (24,982) involved organs from …
Daily Mail |
How the Daily Mail’s donor crusade inspired brave Jean to give a kidney
Daily Mail And last year, transplants from deceased donors dropped by 3 per cent to 2,069, mainly because fewer people died in circumstances where they could donate. Bringing his medical knowledge to his own grim prognosis, Dr Howell calculated that the odds of … |
Pacific StandardThe Algorithm Change That Closed a Race-Based Medical DisparityPacific StandardIn the year before the algorithm change, blacks and Hispanics who needed kidney transplants were less likely to receive an organ from a deceased donor. After…
The Copenhagen Post – Danish news in english |
More Danes donated organs last year
The Copenhagen Post – Danish news in english “We work with small numbers when it comes to organ donations, so it’s really great we have gone from about 60-70 deceased organ donors annually to 87,” Andersen told Kristeligt Dagblad. “Each deceased donor has given between three and four organs to … |
Rick Kupchella’s BringMeTheNews |
Cottage Grove man builds another kidney in the snow to raise awareness
Rick Kupchella’s BringMeTheNews However, roughly 12 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant. In 2014, there were 17,105 kidney transplants in the United States – 11,570 came from deceased donors, while 5,535 came from living donors, the foundation says. |
Financial ExpressMilestones in Indian HealthcareFinancial ExpressThe majority of organ donations in India are by living related donors, often involving considerable risk. Deceased donation following brain death can bridge the huge gap between the requi…
USA TODAYTelenovelas, Spanish website seek to inform Hispanics about kidney donationsUSA TODAY[http://www.organdonor.gov/minorityhisp/index.html] But too often, researchers and doctors said, families are not aware of the transplant regimen involving a …