Daily RecordTwo local women celebrate a kidney donationDaily RecordSome kidneys come from deceased donors, others from living donors. In September of 2012, with her kidney function seriously declining, Osmonovich began an effort through friends and acq…
PR Web (press release)Be an Everyday Superhero: Saving a Life Is Easier Than It SoundsHuffington PostApril is Donate Life Month and there are two different types of organ donation: deceased donation and living donation. One deceased donor can save the …
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Donation should be an organic decision
Bangkok Post In 2014, around 38,000 people in Thailand signed up to be organ donors. There were 4,431 people who were in need of new organs. Only 432 received new organs from 188 donors — people who are deceased, but with fully functional organs. Less than … |
Naples Daily NewsGulf Coast Medical Center temporarily suspends living donor kidney transplant …Naples Daily NewsGulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers has temporarily suspended its living donor kidney transplant program after a donor death, prompti…
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Lee Memorial Health System suspends live donor kidney transplant program
Wink News Lee Memorial Hospital shut down the program after a recent case where a donor died. That case is now under investigation. It’s a decision that leaves people in desperate need, waiting even longer. “We save more lives than we lose, we never know what’s … |
90.5 WESAAllegheny General Hospital Honors Organ Donors With Annual Rose Garden …90.5 WESAAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are more than 123,000 people waiting for organs in the United States, while the number of deceased dono…
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Avioq, Inc. Expands FDA and CE-IVD Claims for Testing Organ and Tissue …
Business Wire (press release) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avioq, Inc. announced today that the Avioq® HTLV-I/II Microelisa System assay can now be used for testing blood specimens from deceased (cadaveric, non-heart beating) organ and tissue donors, … |
RTE.ieTemple Street marks 100 kidney transplantsRTE.ieLast year was the busiest year for transplants, with 19 children receiving a transplant from living or deceased donors. The number of transplants is increasing due to more people carrying organ dono…
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Saline woman pays it forward, saves stranger’s life
Detroit Free Press “They work right away,” he said of kidneys from living donors. “With deceased donor kidneys, there can be a little bit of time before the kidney really wakes up and starts functioning well. Plus, they do work for a longer time, as compared to deceased … |
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Joshua Mezrich and Joseph Scalea: It’s too hard for terminal patients to …
Dallas Morning News Initially, W.B. had assumed that he would arrange for his organs to be procured when he died, but then he read that kidneys from a living donor work better and last longer than kidneys from a deceased donor. For one thing, the death process takes a … Canada’s organ donor rate lags behind other countries. How do you fix it?Globalnews.ca |