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11Jan/18

Report: Record Drug Overdoses Leading To More Organ Donors – The Daily Caller

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Report: Record Drug Overdoses Leading To More Organ Donors
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The recent spike in drug overdoses has also led to a rise in more organ donors, according to the country’s organ transplant network. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) revealed that dead organ donors reached a peak in 2017 for the fifth year …
Your daily 6: Searching through mud, ODs lead to more organ donations and and pot in VermontSTLtoday.com

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10Jan/18

Organ Transplants Hit an All-Time High in 2017. But It’s a Bittersweet Win – TIME

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Organ Transplants Hit an All-Time High in 2017. But It’s a Bittersweet Win
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Last year, organs were recovered from 10,281 deceased donors—more than a 3% increase from 2016 and a 27% increase over the last 10 years. Those organs contributed to the 34,768 transplants performed in 2017 using organs from both deceased and living …
Drug overdoses contribute to record number of organ donorsCNN
Organs from opioid overdose deaths helped bring 2017 donations to record-setting 10000Daily Mail

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10Jan/18

There were more than 10000 deceased organ donors in the United States in 2017, a new record – TheBlaze.com

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There were more than 10000 deceased organ donors in the United States in 2017, a new record
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“We are grateful that more lives are being saved, year after year, thanks to the boundless generosity of organ donors,” Dr. Yolanda Becker, president of the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors, said in a statement. “We remain committed to increasing the …

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10Jan/18

Benefit Concert For VIO-LENCE’s SEAN KILLIAN Moves To Larger Venue – BLABBERMOUTH.NET

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Benefit Concert For VIO-LENCE’s SEAN KILLIAN Moves To Larger Venue
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Living or deceased. So the more volunteers we have for bathing donors, they better the chances are we get Sean one!” A GoFundMe page raising money for Killian’s medical expenses can be found at this location. The final stage of cirrhosis of liver is …
09Jan/18

Organ recipient Greg pledges gift of life for strangers – Mackay Daily Mercury

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Organ recipient Greg pledges gift of life for strangers
Mackay Daily Mercury
The doctors at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital revealed Gregory would need to go on the deceased donor list. “I asked them ‘What’s the prognosis’?” Gregory said. “Back then any publicity was mainly about people who had had a transplant and died …
Luke’s desperate for a third chance at life without dialysisGladstone Observer
Bradford transplant patient who benefitted from the gift of life welcomes moves for a potential opt-out system of …Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Best mates are bound together by a lifesaving giftGympie Times

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09Jan/18

Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want – Futurism

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Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want
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The procedures so far have implanted uteruses from living and deceased donors into otherwise healthy recipients. Once the uterus is fully integrated into the body, doctors insert embryos fertilized via IVF; the procedures so far have used the patient’s …

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