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Registered organ donors in NYS reach ‘historic levels’
WBFO Overall, he said, all efforts combined are making conversations about organ donation more “the community norm” and that, in itself, is helping increase the number of both registered donors and organs donated. “It’s very heartening to hear the stories … Flag flies when organs are being donatedKERO 23ABC News |
Orlando Sentinel |
Global Organ and Tissue Transplantation Industry
Markets Insider A Review of Organ Donors Worldwide Table 1: World Deceased Organ Donors (2016 & 2017): Number of Donors Per Million Population (PMP) for Leading Countries (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) Table 2: World Living Organ Donors (2016 & 2017): Number of … OD victims’ organs may help shortageIndiana Gazette The disturbing reason behind the spike in organ donationsCape Cod Times ‘Life support’ for transplant livers better than freezingThe Nation |
KOLONew local program makes it easier for tissue and cornea donationsKOLOChief Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Knight noticed this issue and decided to collaborate with the Nevada Donor Network to make a change. Typically when a person dies at home, the Med…
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Organ recipient shares live-saving story
Hi-Desert Star “It’s a death sentence without a transplant,” Laudan said. Nearly 115,000 Americans are waiting to receive a lifesaving heart, liver, lung, kidney and/or pancreas and 22 people die each day while waiting for this second chance at life, according to … |
CTV News |
Canada’s oldest blood donor says it’s all gain, no pain after decades …
CTV News VANCOUVER — Beatrice Janyk credits vitamins, 12 hours of sleep a day and a busy mind for allowing her to donate blood regularly for most of the last 70 years. At 95, Canadian Blood Services says Janyk is the country’s oldest blood donor. The great … |
2 Minute MedicineOptimizing organ donations from overdose deaths may help address national organ shortage2 Minute Medicine1. U.S. transplants using organs from overdose-death donors (ODDs) has increased 24-fold from 2000 to 2016, and transplant outcome…
National Post |
Editorial Exchange: Humboldt hockey player’s organ donation a light …
National Post An editorial from the Halifax Chronicle Herald, published April 17:Nothing makes up for the 16 young lives lost in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.But an earlier choice by one of the victims, 21-year-old Logan Boulet, to become an organ donor — and his … |
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Organs from drug overdoses could help transplant shortage
Tyler Morning Telegraph Deaths from overdoses are on the rise yet most occur outside hospitals, blocking organ donation. Still, those deaths now account for about 13 percent of the nation’s deceased organ donors, up from 1 percent in 2000, the researchers calculated. “This is … |
NBC New York |
Happening Today: Barbara Bush, Mike Pompeo, Mice, Organ Donations, Taylor Swift
NBC New York Still, those deaths now account for about 13 percent of the nation’s deceased organ donors, up from 1 percent in 2000, the researchers calculated. There are nearly 115,000 people on the national waiting list for a transplant. Newscaster Carl Kasell of … |
Stuff.co.nz |
French man with ‘three faces’ accepts his new identity – again
Stuff.co.nz A huge logistical and medical operation was swiftly launched requiring the surgeon to cross France to remove the face from the deceased donor and rush back to Paris at dawn. By late morning the following day, the groundbreaking surgery was over and the … ‘The man with three faces’ has second transplantYahoo News First man with three faces after transplants says he is getting used to new identityTelegraph.co.uk Paris News, Pictures and Videos from France’s Capital | Daily Mail OnlineDaily Mail Inside Edition all 73 news articles » |