Marketing Week |
Amorous or atrocious? How brands are doing Valentine’s Day 2017
Marketing Week Almost 5,000 people are currently waiting for a kidney in the UK – more than the total number of people waiting for any other organ combined. As a result, NHS Blood and Transplant launched a Valentine’s campaign aiming to raise awareness and to … |
Daily Mail |
‘I didn’t think twice, I could not lose my baby’: James, 6, was saved by his mother’s kidney after an incurable …
Daily Mail It was a thank you with enormous significance, for Kate had donated one of her kidneys to James in what was the little boy’s second life-saving organ transplant. Aged three, James was diagnosed with an … Three weeks later, still waiting for a heart … |
Leinster Leader |
Kildare comedian to talk to RTE’s Claire Byrne about donating a kidney to his brother
Leinster Leader The operation took place in the US over a week ago and both brothers are recovering well. Jarlath flew home on February 8 and has been raising awareness of the importance of organ donation throughout the process. He will be speaking to Claire Byrne on … |
Phys.Org |
Viral charity campaigns have a psychological ‘recipe’ and all-too-brief lifespan
Phys.Org Yet van der Linden found that the Challenge burned brightly but briefly: with online interest and donations reverting to pre-viral levels in mere weeks. The engagement was also superficial: estimates suggest that 1 in 4 participants did not mention the … |
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press |
What day is it? Drink wine, be (randomly) kind to a grouch this week
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Drink wine, be (randomly) kind to a grouch this week … Do a Grouch a Favor Day this week — and the love might even come back your way. … It’s a new week and a new chance to make every day special. Here’s a … Also: Book Giving Day, Organ Donor Day. |
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A sick toddler needed a liver – so her new nanny donated part of hers
SCNow She said she started researching living organ donation because “I was just curious, I guess,” and she thought she might be a good candidate because she knew her blood type was O, which is compatible with all other blood types, according to the American … |
Scottish Daily Record |
Groom almost missed his wedding after going into severe heart failure
Scottish Daily Record Ali is only too aware how lucky he was to find a match as medical staff told him his was in such a poor condition he had only weeks to live. He added: “They told me there was an audible gasp in the theatre when they cut open my chest and realised how … |
Durant Daily DemocratTeam Triston raising funds for scholarshipsDurant Daily DemocratHe was just going to the ranch that he worked to make sure his work from the week before was satisfactory. He would be right back home, he thought. … The foundation …
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Getting to the heart of Switzerland’s organ donor problem | News …
Expatica Switzerland Switzerland’s ‘opt-in’ policy makes it hard for doctors to obtain patient consent, but ethicists object to the alternative – currently the norm in Europe – of assuming … |
Times & Star |
Baby Hope to inspire more organ donations
Times & Star “As many babies and young children need heart transplants, we urge everyone to register as an organ donor, and register your children too. If there was a heart available, Hope may still have been with us today. “We know that this is a sensitive subject … |