News & Observer |
Raleigh man waits for second kidney donation
News & Observer As of December 2012, about 83 percent of people who received a kidney from a deceased donor were still alive five years after the transplant, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ninety-two percent of people who got a kidney … |
WBIR-TVFuture uncertain for liver transplant organs in SouthWBIR-TVPeople in New York are not as willing to sign up to be organ donors as Tennesseans are. New York, which has a population of 19.7 million people, has had 88 liver donations from deceased…
The TennesseanFuture uncertain for liver transplant organs in SouthThe TennesseanPeople in New York are not as willing to sign up to be organ donors as Tennesseans are. New York, which has a population of 19.7 million people, has had 88 liver donations…
Herald Sun |
Live liver donor: How mum risked her life to save baby son
Herald Sun For months Mrs Joannidis and her husband Andrew had pinned their hopes on a new liver from a deceased donor to save his life, but in May his impatient body tired of waiting. Royal Children’s Hospital paediatric gastroenterologist Dr George Alex, who … |
www.parrysound.comWhen my kidney failedwww.parrysound.comThere is no cure for renal failure, merely treatments. A transplant is another form of treatment as they are not permanent. Living donors commonly last longer than deceased donors. A deceased don…
Kathmandu Post |
Nepali spared from UAE death row returns home
Kathmandu Post in prison after an “unknown” person paid around Rs8.1 million in blood money to the family of the deceased Pakistani worker. A lower court in Abu Dhabi, UAE, convicted 23-year-old Khaling for his alleged involvement in the murder of the Pakistani man … |
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Opinion: Why we need to overhaul the organ donor system
Liberal Democrat Voice What they needed a kidney from a deceased donor. And there simply wasn’t one available. So, just 6 weeks after his own transplant, my son took matters into his own hands. He launched a national campaign of his own. He wrote to hundreds of leading … |
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
Putnam: Summer brings critical need for blood
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle When he was a teenager, his father (now deceased) was one of the original open heart surgery patients at Buffalo General Hospital. “During his surgery, he went through a lot of blood and all that blood came from donors,” Wielgosz said. “I was … |
Huffington Post CanadaMillions In Ontario Register As Organ Donors, Breaking Records And Saving LivesHuffington Post CanadaTORONTO – He was a father, a fiance, a real go-getter and, in the end, he also saved lives. Aaron Murray was driving home after a…
Stuff.co.nz |
Kidney donation law change should go further
Stuff.co.nz Deceased organ donation refers to those situations where a person has been pronounced brain dead in a hospital, and their family has agreed – often in discussion with their family member prior to that person’s death – that their organs should be donated. |