Doctor ‘optimistic’ Melnyk’s liver transplant could happen next week
CTV News
A living donor is Melnyk’s best shot because his rare AB blood allows him to receive a transplant from any blood type. While an organ from a deceased donor must be a perfect match. Potential donors will have to undergo extensive physical and …
Melnyk transplant surgery still several days away: doctorOttawa Citizen
Hundreds offer to be living liver donors for critically ill Sens owner MelnykYahoo Canada Sports

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Melnyk surgery could be in days
Ottawa Sun
“With living donation, you can do the transplant sooner than if (the patient) waited on the deceased donor list, so the outcomes tend to be quite good… Many patients with severe liver disease, they’re very sick, and the longer they’re waiting for a …
Eugene Melnyk could get liver transplant soon, 12 potential donors chosenCBC.ca
Doctor ‘optimistic’ Melnyk’s liver transplant could happen this coming weekCTV News
Hundreds offer to be living liver donors for critically ill Sens owner MelnykYahoo Canada Sports

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Hundreds offer to be living liver donors for critically ill Sens owner Melnyk
The Chronicle Journal
A living donor transplant is Melnyk’s best option because he has rare AB blood; a live donor doesn’t need to have a matching blood type, whereas an organ from a deceased donor must be a perfect match. The UHN transplant team will be reviewing and …
Eugene Melnyk’s public donor plea raises awareness…and ethical questionsMetroNews Canada

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Beverly Marriner: Use sensitivity when speaking about organ donations
Allentown Morning Call
When Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin was quoted in the story, “Homicide charge for mom in baby’s death,” he said the toddler’s organs were “harvested” for donation. The use of the word “harvest” when speaking of organ donation is a hurtful …

Donors hard to come by for Sens’ owner Eugene Melnyk
Ottawa Sun
After “exhausting” every avenue internally within friends and family and the deceased donor list, the Senators said Melnyk is in need of a live liver donor. Chow was confident they would find a match after going public about the 55-year-old’s dire …
Ottawa Senators’ owner Eugene Melnyk pleads for new liver, raises ethical …Toronto Star
Senators owner Melnyk seriously ill, team seeks liver donorOttawa Citizen
Critically ill Senators’ owner needs liver transplant, putting organ donations …CTV News
London Free Press
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Giving HOPE: US has nearly 400 HIV-positive potential organ donors
Medical Xpress
The Penn researchers and their colleagues arrived at their estimate by reviewing the records of 578 HIV-positive patients who died at six large Philadelphia HIV clinics to determine their potential suitability as deceased donors. Their mean age was 53 …
Public Release: 14-May-2015 Study investigates the quality of organs from …EurekAlert (press release)
Organ Donation Sees Win-Win By Making Use Of HIV-Positive TransplantsMedical Daily
THINK YOU’RE AN ORGAN DONOR? (THINK AGAIN)Florida Weekly
Tyler Morning Telegraph –Times of Malta
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Israel Charges 7 with International Organ Trafficking
Naharnet
Israeli law allows transplant of organs from a deceased donor or a living relative “without direct or indirect monetary reward”, according to the Israeli Medical Association website. It says health ministry regulations prohibit “any form of organ …

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Are You Waiting for a Kidney Transplant? Living Donors Bring Hope
Health Hub from Cleveland Clinic
If you’re waiting for a kidney transplant, you already know about the daunting stats: 100,000 patients on the wait list and a three- to five-year wait, on average, for a kidney from a deceased donor. But each year, hundreds of transplant patients get …
New kidney transplant system helps some but doesn’t address wait time gapChippewa Herald

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Use CSR budget to fund liver transplants in children: doctors
The Hindu
In October 2014, a National Policy Round Table was held in Lucknow on “Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation in India-Converting Challenges into Opportunities.” Dr. Asthana, who was part of the Round Table, said certain recommendations were made to …
BGS Global Hospitals Performs 100 Liver Transplants; a First in KarnatakaPR Newswire India (press release)

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Mom to donate kidney to another boy after son’s death
Edmonton Sun
He died June 8, 2011, on what was to be the day his mother, Michelle, would have given him a kidney. And in that moment, under the weight of a mother’s grief, Michelle turned to David’s doctor and made a promise: “You find me a person who deserves this …

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