Organ transplants bring message: So many others can donate, too
Lowell Sun
The transplant floor at UMass Memorial is one of the largest and busiest in the New England region, according to the hospital. The transplant team provides deceased–donor organ transplantation, living-donor organ transplantation for livers and kidneys …
Kidney donor from Leominster pays it forwardWorcester Telegram
Two happy endings, more to comeSentinel & Enterprise

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Three million Ontarians now registered as organ and tissue donors
Brampton Guardian
Between 2009 and today, 1,334 deceased Ontario organ donors have contributed to 5,697 life-saving kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplants. Just over 7,500 and tissue donors have extended and enhanced thousands of patients’ …
Three million Ontarians are registered donorsCanada NewsWire (press release)

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Two happy endings, more to come
Sentinel & Enterprise
The transplant team provides deceased–donor organ transplantation, living-donor organ transplantation for livers and kidneys and pediatric kidney transplants. Since its inception, three children have received transplants. The hospital also has a …

Stem cell therapy for diabetes
OUPblog (blog)
At present the only sources of beta cells for transplantation are the pancreases taken from deceased organ donors. However this has enabled a clinical procedure to the introduced called “islet transplantation”. Here, the pancreatic islets (which …

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Kidney donor from Leominster pays it forward
Worcester Telegram
Dr. Adel Bozorgzadeh talks about surgeries he performed so Kaitlin O’Connell of Leominster could donate a kidney to Richard Finlay, right, of Ayer. The three spoke Thursday about the donation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

“I would like to help Nepal in a practical way”
Nepali times
The new element is in the way the donor heart was obtained. The majority of conventional organ donors are Brain Dead Donors (BDD). These patients have been confirmed by appropriate tests to have no brain-stem reflexes. The patient is considered legally …

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Three million Ontarians now registered as organ and tissue donors
OurWindsor.ca
Between 2009 and today, 1,334 deceased Ontario organ donors have contributed to 5,697 life-saving kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplants. Just over 7,500 and tissue donors have extended and enhanced thousands of patients’ …

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Organ Donors Want Choices
Bloomberg View
In contrast, in the US opt-in model, both families and the state respect the deceased donor’s wishes because they know they were the result of a proactive decision rather than a bureaucratically-designed nudge. More simply, an active choice has …

An organ shortage kills 30 Americans every day. Is it time to pay donors?
Washington Post (blog)
But Tom Mone, chief executive of OneLegacy, the nation’s largest organ and tissue recovery organization, points out that “The recovery rate for deceased donors in the United States is actually better than that of European nations with presumed consent …

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