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Letter: Consider a living kidney donation
The State Journal-Register I was very pleased to see that Memorial Medical Center’s kidney transplant program is going to start working with paired donors (“MMC expands donation program,” Sunday’s State Journal-Register). There will never be enough usable organs from deceased … |
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Lowell General Hospital Partners with New England Organ Bank for the 2015 …
Lowell.com News This year’s ‘Never-Ending Story’ float features 60 butterflies – one for each life that can be transformed by a single deceased donor – emerging from an open book. The butterflies ascend above 72 volumes adorned with floragraph portraits of deceased … |
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New rules to change some people’s wait for kidney
Yahoo News The goal is to get the maximum benefit out of a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. “Not everyone’s going to get the same benefit out of a kidney transplant,” said Dr. Matthew J. Ellis of Duke University Medical Center, who is optimistic the … |
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New rules to change some people’s wait for kidney
Washington Post The goal is to get the maximum benefit out of a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. “Not everyone’s going to get the same benefit out of a kidney transplant,” said Dr. Matthew J. Ellis of Duke University Medical Center, who is optimistic the … |
ParamusPost.com |
Rose Dedication from Hackensack University Health Network to be Included in …
ParamusPost.com This includes riders who have received transplants, walkers who are living kidney donors, and deceased donors memorialized in “Floragraph” portraits which will be integrated into the float’s design. There are more than 120,000 people in the United … |
Regina Leader-Post |
New transplant rules bring changes to kidney waiting list
Regina Leader-Post The goal is to get the maximum benefit out of a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. “Not everyone’s going to get the same benefit out of a kidney transplant,” said Dr. Matthew J. Ellis of Duke University Medical Center, who is optimistic the … |
Globalnews.ca |
Changes coming to U.S. kidney transplant waiting list
Globalnews.ca Roughly 11,000 transplants are thanks to kidneys donated from someone who just died rather than living donors. How long you’ve been waiting is the main factor in deciding who gets the next available cadaver kidney. But starting Thursday, the fittest of … |
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier |
Changes coming to kidney transplant waiting list
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier The goal is to get the maximum benefit out of a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. “Not everyone’s going to get the same benefit out of a kidney transplant,” said Dr. Matthew J. Ellis of Duke University Medical Center, who is optimistic the … |
Arizona Daily Star |
Changes coming to kidney transplant waiting list
Arizona Daily Star The goal is to get the maximum benefit out of a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. “Not everyone’s going to get the same benefit out of a kidney transplant,” said Dr. Matthew J. Ellis of Duke University Medical Center, who is optimistic the … |
Huffington Post |
A Day Without Art: Looking Back 25 Years
Huffington Post As social historian Gary Laderman notes, the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt filled a void in the lives of survivors at a time funeral homes and cemeteries refused to handle the AIDS-deceased’s remains due to both the social stigma of AIDS and fear of its … |