Al-BawabaHMC launches campaign to encourage organ donationAl-BawabaThese life-saving organs come from deceased donors, who have pledged during their life to give their organs to someone in need. A deceased organ donor can save up to eight lives. It is …
HealthlineStakeholders Participate in Seminar On Organ TransplantationAllAfrica.comFor his part, Dr Purgus focused his presentation on living and non-living kidney transplantation donors. He said that a deceased donor is a person who decides to donate …
Napa Valley RegisterLocal man sets off kidney transplant chain reactionNapa Valley RegisterLast year, 5,535 kidney transplants came from living donors in the U.S., according to the National Kidney Foundation. Another 11,570 came from deceased donors wh…
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Ross woman receives scholarship for organ-donation awareness work
Tribune-Review Doctors immediately sought a donor organ, and Kappeler held on longer than initially expected. Eight days later, she and another patient, a 13-year-old boy, split the liver of a deceased donor. “That organ saved two lives,” Ron Kappeler said. “But you … |
MD Magazine |
Liver Transplants: Living Vs. Deceased Donors
MD Magazine David Goldberg, MD, medical director for living-donor liver transplantation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, commented, “As a community, we should consider increased use of living-donor liver transplantation to help bridge … Son donates part of liver to mom and hopes to set exampleThe Journal News | LoHud.com Study Supports Living-Donor Liver TransplantsGastroenterology & Endoscopy News Health Beat: Living liver transplant saves 2 livesWFMZ Allentown |
BBC NewsHospitals urge Muslims to donate organsBBC NewsHospitals in the West Midlands are urging Muslims to consider donating their organs for patients waiting for transplants. Muslims needing an organ donation, such as a new kidney or liver, wait on a…
Otago Daily Times |
Little Leon’s organs help save others
Otago Daily Times New Zealand has the lowest organ donation rate in the developed world, with only 46 viable deceased donors in 2014. The youngest donor was only 10 weeks old. The oldest was 82. In 2013 that figure was even lower, with only 36 viable deceased donors. |
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Teen who needed kidney, donor get red carpet treatment at gala
New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV Dr. Juan Rocca, another member of Mike’s transplant team, points out, “Sometimes they wait five to eight years to get a deceased donor so that makes a big difference because after five to eight years of dialysis you are much sicker at the time of … |
Renal and Urology News |
Paying Donors May Help Organ Shortage
Renal and Urology News Revenue policies were also associated with a 4.9% increase in the number of deceased donors per capita and an 8.0% increase in the number of transplants of organs from deceased donors. This works out to an additional 6.5 deceased donors and 8 … How we can increase Australia’s organ donation rateThe Conversation AU |
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The world’s first penis transplant has reportedly resulted in a pregnancy
Hamilton Spectator To get permission to use the penis that has now facilitated a pregnancy, van der Merwe’s team had to fashion a new penis out of abdominal skin for the deceased donor to be buried with. One day soon, we may not need donors at all: Last year, researchers … World’s first penis transplant patient gets girlfriend pregnant in South AfricaDaily Mail |