State Highlights: Kansas Nurse Sets Off Organ Donation Chain With Decision To Give Kidney To Friend; Calif …
Kaiser Health News
A nurse’s decision to donate a kidney to a patient triggered a series of events that led to three people getting new organs at two Kansas City-area hospitals. Christa Jordan, a nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, wanted to …

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Pride of Britain Awards sparks huge surge in sign-ups for organ donation register
Mirror.co.uk
A huge surge in organ donors was recorded after viewers saw transplant kids Max Johnson and Ella Chadwick on TV in our Pride of Britain Awards. Figures today show 5,544 people joined the register – 58% up on the week before.

Ask Dr. Nandi: Why organ donation is essential
WSYM-TV
It’s phenomenal that one donor can save the lives of 8 people. And donated tissue can help up to 75 people. This is truly a life-enhancing opportunity for recipients to move, see and live better lives. Last year alone, 320 Michigan organ donors lead to …

Opioid overdose ‘silver lining’: Organ donations up in Philadelphia
Becker’s Hospital Review
Philadelphia’s spike in opioid overdoses has contributed to an increase in organ donations, according to CBS Philly. Research cited by the local news station shows more organs are being donated from overdose victims. The United Network for Organ …

Pigs are the next organ donors
Axios
What’s next: “The first pig-to-human skin graft using live cells is set to take place this month in Boston,” the NYT reports, and an upcoming clinical trial “will install … pigs’ kidneys in dialysis patients who are unlikely to be considered for …

Gordon seeks to increase organ donations by amending law
GMA News
Senator Richard Gordon has filed a bill providing for an “opt-out” system of organ donations and transplants to promote and increase the donation rate. In his explanatory note on Senate Bill 2096, Gordon said that in the “opt-out” donation system …

Father of organ donor speaks at WIT donor forum
KCAU 9
“We hope to reach everyone out in the community and encourage them to become organ donors because we do have quite a bit of need not just around the world but here in Iowa,” said Kelly Mathison, a member of Phi Theta Kappa. “And we just want to be …

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Ask Dr. Nandi: Why organ donation is essential
WXYZ
It’s phenomenal that one donor can save the lives of 8 people. And donated tissue can help up to 75 people. This is truly a life-enhancing opportunity for recipients to move, see and live better lives. Last year alone, 320 Michigan organ donors lead to …
Local double organ recipient celebrating 30 years of lifeAL.com (blog)
Southwest Transplant Alliance Breaks Ground on First-of-its-Kind FacilityD Healthcare Daily

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Western Iowa Tech students hold educational forum on organ donation
KTIV
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Students at Western Iowa Tech Community College helped the public learn more about the impact of organ donation. An educational forum was held on campus Wednesday, featuring people who have been personally affected by organ …