Irondequoit Post |
Kidney donation: Victor man is ‘someone’s hero’
Irondequoit Post The seed was planted last year when Griffen happened to stumble across a Facebook post by a “friend of a friend” who wrote on behalf of another friend who was in need of a kidney from a donor with a specific blood type. It listed a phone number people … |
Sarnia Observer |
Event ambassador encouraging people to register as organ donors
Sarnia Observer He’ll never know who the deceased donor was, he said. “It was just someone who was kind enough to sign their donor card.” Barrett, 64, is sharing his story as this year’s ambassador at the 12th annual Kidney Walk in Sarnia, Sept. 27. The Canatara Park … |
Columbus Dispatch |
Organ donation from mom gives son a new lease on life
Columbus Dispatch Although not every patient with kidney disease is a candidate for a transplant, Burks and the McKinneys said they can’t stress enough the importance of organ donation, both from deceased and living donors. (Most people have two kidneys but need only … |
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Hand transplant program could help amputees grasp, write
The Michigan Daily Patients accepted into the program will receive hands from recently deceased donors. The surgery is intense. It requires a team of 10 to 30 doctors depending on the complexity of each individual case, and it lasts eight to 12 hours — compared to an … |
PanAm Post |
Should People Be Allowed to Sell Their Own Organs?
PanAm Post Current solutions lie in opt-out policies, education, and efficient mechanisms for donation from deceased patients. Meanwhile, science can continue working to develop tailor-made organs, something that will surely one day come. Pedro García is the … |
Jeevandan gets a big fillipTimes of IndiaThe latest donor is a 47-year-old male brain-dead patient at KIMS hospital with his kin giving consent for harvesting his organs on Tuesday. A day earlier, kin of two more donors — 35-year-old Radhika, a hospit…
The Seattle Times |
UW docs test ‘heart in a box’ to boost scarce transplants
The Seattle Times For now, the organs will come from donors who’ve been declared brain-dead, but still have functioning hearts, Smith said. The OCS has been used successfully in Europe in a patient whose heart had stopped beating in his body. The organ was retrieved … |
Daily Caller |
Clinton Minion Won’t Apologize For Dirty Opposition Research Attack On Bernie …
Daily Caller Hillary Clinton lackey David Brock refused to apologize to Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for an email his super PAC sent out comparing the Vermont senator to radical British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. In … |
Madison.com |
Good will helps people get kidneys through transplant chains
Madison.com She knew that patients age 70 and older typically have a hard time getting a deceased donor kidney. Half a dozen family members and friends were tested to be living donors but none matched. Then Megan O’Leary, a friend’s daughter from De Pere, near … |
Nottingham Post |
Laura’s three kidney ops saved her life
Mansfield Chad Laura Barratt from Sutton has had three kidney transplant after a childhood cancer left her on dialysis aged just 4 – two from deceased donors and a final one a living donation from her dad. The 25-year-old was urging more people to become donors … Mother’s plea for organ donation to help three-year-oldNottingham Post |