Mumbai MirrorGovernment keen to offer incentives for organ donorsMumbai MirrorAt present, once the family of the patient who is declared brain dead gives consent for organ donation, the hospital bill from that moment onwards is waived off for them. How…
Sydney Morning Herald |
The numbers game if you’re waiting for an organ transplant
Sydney Morning Herald Figures from the Australia and New Zealand Organ Donor Register show that there have been 419 deceased organ donors so far this year. This is ahead of the 378 people whose organs were donated after their death last year, resulting in 1317 organs being … |
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press |
Norfolk families are given honours for loved ones who donated organs
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press It comes as the number of deceased organ donors in the UK dropped for the first time in 11 years between April 2014 and March 2015. There are 55 people from Norfolk on the UK’s waiting list for transplant. Of those, 12 have been waiting longer than two … |
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Family celebrates son’s first Christmas after liver transplant from mom
News3LV BRUNSWICK, Ohio (Cleveland Clinic) – More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for the greatest gift of all this holiday season – an organ transplant. Many of those organs come from deceased donors, but some organs can be transplanted … |
Washington Post |
Principal to give former student ultimate Christmas gift: Her kidney
Washington Post About 11,500 will get transplants from deceased donors, and another 5,500 will get organs from so-called living donors like Buell. While most donors are members of a patient’s family, a growing number are acquaintances, co-workers, neighbors. In a … |
TBO.com |
New rules bringing kidneys to hardest-to-transplant patients
TBO.com It’s been a year since the United Network for Organ Sharing changed rules for the transplant waiting list, aiming to decrease disparities and squeeze the most benefit from a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. Now data from UNOS shows that … |
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Donations bring campaign $6000 closer to goal with one day left
Carroll County Times … $110 from the Manchester Valley High School’s field hockey team; $100 in memory of deceased classmates — Westminster High School Class of 1959; $100 from Dave and Conni Highfield in memory of Dick Blanchard; $100 from Debbie and Bill Palm in … |
When gods become shelterless: rituals and reconstructing temples in post …OUPblog (blog)International donors, among them the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, are supporting its reconstruction. But can … After another half of the year …
Deceased organ donors to be honored in paradeWink NewsVENICE, Fla.- A father and daughter killed in a plane crash on a Venice beach are being honored during the holidays. The story of Army Sergeant First Class Ommy Irizarry and his 9-year-old daughter …
Bloomington Pantagraph |
Former Normal resident leaves money to hospitals
Bloomington Pantagraph “We don’t know the specifics yet, but we are very grateful for his donation.” Leaders at all three hospitals said they had not been told about the donation prior to Smith’s death. “It came out of left field,” Ford said. “He had been a patient here at … |