TBO.com |
Pasco Business Digest for Nov. 30
TBO.com The Donate Life Rose Parade float has become a national tradition featuring dozens of participants each year – riders who received transplants, walkers who are living donors, and deceased donors memorialized in “floragraph” portraits integrated into … |
Tampa Bay Times |
Pasco Business Digest for Nov. 30
Tampa Bay Times The Donate Life Rose Parade float has become a national tradition featuring dozens of participants each year — riders who received transplants, walkers who are living donors, and deceased donors memorialized in “floragraph” portraits integrated into … |
CTV NewsRegistered organ donors often avoid ticking box for eyes, but many need gift of sightCTV NewsHumphreys said that like other tissues and organs from deceased donors, the demand for eye tissue lags supply: for instance, the average wait time for …
CTV News |
Registered organ donors often avoid ticking box for eyes, but many …
CTV News It should have been a relatively uncomplicated surgery — removing a cataract in Alvin Hallett’s right eye. But somehow the surgeon accidentally struck his cornea … |
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Registered organ donors often avoid ticking box for eyes, but many need gift of sight
The Chronicle Journal Humphreys said that like other tissues and organs from deceased donors, the demand for eye tissue lags supply: for instance, the average wait time for a cornea transplant in Ontario is 252 days — or more than eight months. Of the 12.4 million … |
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Proposal to give Rs 5 lakh to relatives of deceased organ donors awaits clearance
Daily Pioneer The move, that ‘compensatory support’ should be doled out to any relative who has to go through the medical trauma of donating the organ of the family member, aims to boost deceased organ donation, which is dismally low in the country, said Dr Anil … |
The GrowthOp |
US paper finds cannabis use has no effect on kidney transplant outcomes
The GrowthOp “Living donor transplants decrease the time the recipient spends on dialysis and increase the small donor pool,” the paper explains. Additionally, “outcomes of the recipient and their graft are better when receiving a living donor kidney over a … |
DevdiscourseGovt issues new guidelines for foreigners seeking organ transplant in IndiaBusiness StandardIn 2017, there were 1,684 kidney transplants, 339 heart transplants, 708 liver transplants, 125 lung transplants, 14 pancreas transplants and the to…
Times of India |
While they work hard to save lives, their jobs are not safe
Times of India Each transplant includes grief counselling, legal approvals, finding recipients and hand-holding the family till the cremation of the deceased donor. “We are dealing with life and death every day, but our jobs are not permanent,” added another coordinator. |
ScienceAlert |
Infectious, Deadly Prions Could Be Spreading Via People’s Eyes, Scientists Warn
ScienceAlert Another rare form of exposure is corneal graft operations, where patients become infected after receiving unknowingly contaminated corneal transplants from deceased donors who carried (but were never diagnosed with) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the … |