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07Feb/17

NHS brings back Valentine’s Day organ donation campaign – The Drum

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The Drum

NHS brings back Valentine’s Day organ donation campaign
The Drum
The NHS ran a similar campaign last year, taking a humorous approach to solving the problem of registering and talking about your own donor wishes. Called ‘Better Left Unsaid’ the work from Aesop Agency exceeded expectations and so the creative shop …
Organ donor shortage prompts NHS chiefs to issue plea for Brits to give a kidney before they dieMirror.co.uk
Methodist Hospital Leads Nation in Live-Donor Kidney TransplantsRivard Report

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07Feb/17

Idahoans Big Givers When It Comes To Organ Donation – Boise State Public Radio

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Boise State Public Radio

Idahoans Big Givers When It Comes To Organ Donation
Boise State Public Radio
According to figures released Monday, the Idaho Transportation Department says more Idahoans, 64 percent, sign up to donate their organs, compared to the national average of 51 percent. In 2016, Idahoans donated 169 organs to those in need. That’s up …

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07Feb/17

Vatican row as Chinese official invited to organ transplant meet – Yahoo News

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Vatican row as Chinese official invited to organ transplant meet
Yahoo News
Huang told journalists at the summit that the controversy was “ridiculous” and the use of organs from executed prisoners in China “is not allowed under any circumstances”. He admitted though that organ transplants from prisoners may still be taking place.
Vatican row as China invited to organ transplant meetThe Japan Times
We’re really not harvesting executed prisoners’ organs for transplant …South China Morning Post
Organ transplant progress ‘but violations still exist’Shanghai Daily (subscription)
New York Times –The Daily Progress
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07Feb/17

Sudbury funeral director, lung transplant recipient says organ donors have nothing to fear – CBC.ca

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CBC.ca

Sudbury funeral director, lung transplant recipient says organ donors have nothing to fear
CBC.ca
When Don Perreault was in his 20s, his battle with leukemia — and subsequent bone marrow transplant — reduced his lung capacity to just 27 per cent. “I couldn’t walk, I had to sit while I was teaching, I couldn’t carry a bag of groceries,” Perreault …
06Feb/17

China seeks to show pope, world its organ program reforms – Minneapolis Star Tribune

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China seeks to show pope, world its organ program reforms
Minneapolis Star Tribune
ROME — China is stepping up its efforts to persuade the international medical community that it has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors, sending a high-level delegation to a Vatican conference amid continued skepticism that the practice …
China wants the world to know it has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donorsToronto Star
Chinese Transplant Doctor Accused of Ordering Executions to Speak at VaticanThe Epoch Times
Senior Chinese health official to attend Vatican summit on organ traffickingSouth China Morning Post
Global Times
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