The Conversation AU |
How we can increase Australia’s organ donation rate
The Conversation AU In 2008, the Rudd Labor government allocated A$136 million to create a nationwide government body called the Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA), and charged it with increasing Australia’s low deceased organ and tissue donation rates. The initiative failed. |
Scottish Daily Record |
The world’s first penis transplant has reportedly resulted in a pregnancy
Washington Post To get permission to use the penis that has now facilitated a pregnancy, van der Merwe’s team had to fashion a new one 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 |
McCandless man in need of kidney transplantTribune-ReviewOutcomes are better for people with kidney failure if they get an organ from a live donor, compared to a deceased donor, Tevar said. Nationally, more than 124,000 people are awaiting an organ tra…
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Communication gap among staff, admits GMCH Director
Chandigarh Tribune A day after Chandigarh Tribune exposed the “apathy and ineffective” implementation of the eye donation programme at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, by highlighting a case where a donor’s family was sent back home despite … |
UCSF News ServicesUCSF Medical Center, CPMC Join Forces for 18-Patient Kidney Transplant ChainUCSF News Services… common for kidney dialysis patients to receive donations from living donors, leading to better outcomes. In 2014, 5,535 kidney transplan…
Irish Independent |
Sinn Féin has raked in over $390k from US donors in six months
Irish Independent Gerry Adams’s party is unrivalled in its capacity to generate huge sums of cash in the US. In one instance, the party was left more than $1,000 dollars as part of the estate of a deceased person. But the largest individual donation of $20,000 was … |
Ottawa Citizen |
Doctor praises Melnyk’s liver donor: ‘A wonderful human being’
Ottawa Citizen But Levy said he became involved with living liver donations because he was tired of watching his patients die while on the waiting list for a deceased donation. And, while he would prefer a more robust deceased donor program that would limit the need … |
Edmonton Journal |
Parents of sick baby hope liver donor found
Edmonton Journal “There is added risk when doing living liver donations compared, to say, a living kidney donation,” Williamson said. Naomi was also added to the deceased liver donation list late Friday, increasing her chances of finding a usable liver, Carlow said. |
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Transplant surgeon’s epic legacy
9news.com.au It was another game changer, allowing two patients to be transplanted from a single organ from a deceased donor. His work has helped reduce the mortality rate among Australian and New Zealanders on liver transplant wait lists to just 5 per cent … |
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Precision medicine can reduce racial disparities in kidney transplants
The Hill (blog) A long-standing, vexing problem for kidney transplant donors, patients, and scientists is that kidney transplants from African American deceased donors don’t last as long as deceased donor kidneys from other ethnic/racial groups. Since many African … |