Philadelphia Magazine (blog) |
A Look Inside Penn Medicine’s Living Liver Donor Program
Philadelphia Magazine (blog) Liver transplant is a life-saving surgery for people with end-stage liver disease. With more than 15,000 patients on the waiting list to receive a liver transplant and a critical shortage of deceased donor livers, an alternative is desperately needed. |
ChesterChronicle.co.uk |
Chester organ donors honoured for saving lives
ChesterChronicle.co.uk The families of last year’s 1,282 deceased organ donors have all been invited to receive the award, displaying the words ‘add life, give hope’, at a regional ceremony or have the award sent to them privately. Award ceremonies take place between … Life-saving Nuneaton organ donor is honouredNuneaton News |
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8 Things You Need To Know This AM
Refinery29 Organs will be sourced from deceased donors, and the first surgery can take place within the next few months. (Jezebel). Kristin Cavallari addressed her brother’s mysterious disappearance. Former Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari reached out on … |
Forward |
Was Dead Man Too Jewish To Be Cremated?
Forward Nonetheless, Schonberger filed papers days after Martin Mendelsohn’s September 15 death to block the cremation. He raised money to pay his legal expenses for the suit with an online advertisement that asked donors to “Act Now” to “Save a Fellow Jew … |
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New rules allow people with HIV to donate to others with disease
Tribune-Review “If our estimates were correct about the number of HIV-positive donors that were available, this will be the largest increase in deceased–donor organ transplants in the last decade,” Segev said. An average of 22,256 organs per year were recovered from … |
The Oceanside Post |
New organ donor laws for Wales mean everyone is now a donor
The Oceanside Post The event was attended by His Excellency Abdullah bin Khalid al Qahtani, Minister for Public Health and Hanan Al Kuwari Phd, HMC’s Managing Director and honored 33 living organ donors and the families of the eight deceased donors, for their … Organs law for Wales means adults automatic donors after deathThe Film Pilgrim MSP underlines urgency behind organ donation system changeGlasgow South and Eastwood Extra Organ donation: Groundbreaking law change in Wales means all adults become donorsExaminer Voice (blog) |
CNBC |
These orphan funds need your help
CNBC That’s why the matter of orphan donor advised fund accounts is coming into focus. While still only a tiny fraction of the assets in donor advised funds, the money in these accounts — left behind when a donor dies without naming beneficiaries or … |
Tech TimesPenis Transplant In The Works To Help Wounded US TroopsTech TimesJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine surgeons said that penis transplants for wounded U.S. soldiers could become a reality in the next few months. The organs from decease…
New York TimesPenis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded TroopsNew York TimesThe organ will come from a deceased donor, and the surgeons, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, say they expect it to start working in a matte…
The Express TribuneSpare organs: Illegal organ transplant market thrives in PakistanThe Express TribuneIn the three years that followed, he endured the morbidities of dialysis while searching for a family donor, and came close to death twice. When thin…