Buffalo Business First |
ECMC receives $1.2M to boost organ donor rates
Buffalo Business First ECMC has completed 90 kidney transplants this year so far, including seven with living donors and the remainder with deceased donor kidneys. That’s up from 71 transplant last year through Aug. 1. The hospital’s transplant program received a five-year … |
Daily Mail |
Donor, 53, meets the patient who received her HEART: Seriously-ill woman agreed to donate her healthy organ to …
Daily Mail Surgeons at Stanford University Hospital in California performed a rare procedure in which one patient receives the heart and lungs from a deceased donor and the patient’s healthy heart goes to somebody else. Pictured: Tammy Griffin (left) hears her … |
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Blood samples used to investigate adaptive repair mechanisms of transplanted kidneys
MD Linx (press release) The researchers used blood taken over 30 days in routine draws from 15 kidney transplant recipients, 5 of whom received an organ from a living donor and 10 with organs from deceased donors. Gene expression analysis—which examines the amounts of … |
ETHealthworld.comAster CMI, Bangalore, first in Asia to introduce OrganOx to improve liver transplantETHealthworld.comHis wife said- Our entire family had been evaluated but there were no suitable matching donors. Our only hope was getting an organ fro…
The FFA Cup (press release) |
DonateLife and FFA go for goal of more registered organ donors
The FFA Cup (press release) “Over the last nine years, the number of deceased organ donors has more than doubled, and the number of Australians receiving a transplant has increased by 75%. “But with just one in three Australians currently registered on the Australian Organ Donor … |
Health EuropaStrategies to improve patient outcomes in kidney transplantationHealth EuropaLiving donor kidney transplantation achieves better overall results than the transplantation of deceased donor organs. Many efforts have therefore been made to ex…
STV NewsHalf of Scots register to donate organs after deathSTV NewsHalf of people in Scotland have registered to donate their organs or tissue after their death, new official figures show. Around 2,724,000 Scottish residents are signed up to the UK Org…
STV News |
Giving a part of yourself can help save lives
Malaya “In essence, deceased organ donation is a legacy of voluntarily giving your healthy organs and tissues to be transplanted to another person with organ failure at the time of your death,” explains Arlene Lamban, M.D., of MakatiMed’s Section of Nephrology. Half of Scots register to donate organs after deathSTV News |
Blood samples used to investigate adaptive repair mechanisms of transplanted kidneysEurekAlert (press release)The researchers used blood taken over 30 days in routine draws from 15 kidney transplant recipients, five of whom received an organ from a liv…
The Independent |
Spain leads the world in organ donation – what’s stopping other countries catching up?
The Independent That a highly compatible deceased donor was available as well as so many willing living donors, including family members, is perhaps a reflection of something that makes Spain a very special country indeed: it leads the world in organ donation. And by … Bendigo high in organ donation registration statisticsBendigo Advertiser Considered Becoming An Organ Donor? Here’s Why You Should.Hit 107 The call that could change David’s lifeGippsland Times Kidspot –WAtoday all 49 news articles » |