Independent Online |
Tiny Amy loses her battle
Independent Online Durban – UMhlanga’s 5-year-old Amy Miller, who suffered from a rare congenital heart disease, died this week after desperately waiting for a donor. Now her parents Natasha and Mike Miller hope their daughter’s story will encourage more people to become … |
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EXCHANGE: Community leader survives transplant, heads home
Lexington Herald Leader … he and Michelle want to give back and are increasing awareness about organ and tissue donation. “Sign up to be an organ donor,” Michelle said in the Kelleher family home last week. “It saves lives. Someone else’s loss and generosity saved my husband.”. |
North Devon Journal |
Festival organised in memory of Barnstaple teenager Katie Gammon
North Devon Journal The Breathe Festival is aimed at raising awareness of cystic fibrosis and Katie’s family hope it will encourage people of all ages to sign up for organ donation. Throughout her life Katie was constantly campaigning for more people to become organ … |
azcentral.com |
Tolleson teen, blessed by pope, succumbs to cancer
azcentral.com She elected to forego treatment and began documenting her journey, which included raising money and awareness for children’s cancer at Phoenix-area organizations, as well as visits to see her father in Mexico and the pope in Italy. Negrete died at … |
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Around Town: November 20, 2015
Powell River Peak Applications for Christmas cheer hampers are available at Town Centre Mall office, Community Resource Centre, Youth and Family Services, Cranberry Children’s Centre, Black Point Store and Lang Bay Store. Deadline for applications is Thursday, … |
Newton Religion NotesWicked LocalCity Mission 12-week Yoga classes: 8:30-10 a.m. Thursdays through Dec. $12 class … This weekly gathering combines guided and silent meditation to develop a capacity for mindful awareness and to cultivate qualities of …
St.Louis Review |
LIGHT IT UP | Create new traditions to usher in the birth of Christ this Advent
St.Louis Review Advent is a time of preparation that points our hearts and minds to the two comings of Christ: at the end of time and at His birth on Christmas. The word Advent comes from the Latin “advenio,” meaning “to come.” For the first several weeks of Advent … |
Evening StandardI gave my kidney to save life of a strangerEvening StandardIt took Ms Hayman six weeks to re-cover after the operation in July and she has since completed a 40-mile cycle ride. She said one of her two daughters had initially been … Ma…
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Student’s father finds kidney match – battle continues
ECU The East Carolinian A few weeks ago, Kassandra Klus wrote a message on her car asking for help to find a kidney donor for her dad, Ron Klus, who has Wegener’s granulomatosis and was in need of a kidney transplant. Ron Klus’ donor is a firefighter and plays in the same … |
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Gauteng Health Receives Ultrasound Machine At Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
AllAfrica.com On Thursday, the hospital’s Department of Endocrinology will take ownership of ultrasound to the value of R700 000, donated by global pharmaceutical company, Merck. … The thyroid gland is a small butterfly-shaped organ found just below the Adam’s … |