West – Welfare Society Territory |
iPhone Health app makes organ donation easier
West – Welfare Society Territory There’s good news from Apple for the 120,000 US citizens waiting for a life-saving transplant. A new feature of the Health app allows users to opt in to donating their organs, tissues and corneas. As soon as registration takes place on the iPhone, the … |
The Daily Advertiser |
Concert gives a boost to organ donation
The Daily Advertiser Their family contacted us and this person is now an organ donor, as of Saturday evening. “So we continue to tell the story.” Christian’s Legacy gets a boost from “The Music of Queen,” a concert with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, set for Aug. 13 at … |
Innovative organ donation program allows living donors to donate kidney in advanceNews-Medical.netGift certificate, layaway plan or voucher. Call it what you want, but an innovative organ donation program initiated at UCLA has started to spread to othe…
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The Case For Organ Donation
The Nation In 2015 when MNA Kishwer Zehra told colleagues that she has decided to donate her organs after death and will also be moving ‘The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Bill’ to raise awareness about organ donation in Pakistan, MNA Moulvi Agha … |
Times of India |
Move to push organ donation in Bengal
Times of India KOLKATA: Sovona Sarkar’s shradh ceremony on Sunday saw the seedlings of organ donation movement planted in Kolkata. While Sarkar’s family performed the last rites, citizens and healthcare professionals came together on the occasion to take deceased … |
Waterloo Record |
Local hospitals working on improving organ donation rates
Waterloo Record WATERLOO REGION — Waterloo Region’s hospitals are generally excelling in their efforts to boost organ donation, according to new data. All local hospitals have high routine notification rates, an essential first step to notify the Trillium Gift of … |
John O’Groat JournalCampaign targets new organ donorsJohn O’Groat JournalPEOPLE in Caithness are being encouraged to consider joining the NHS Organ Donor Register if they have not done so already. It comes as a new campaign, We Need Everybody, highligh…
Gainesville Times |
Gainesville’s first triathlon inspired by push for organ donations
Gainesville Times Forty of North Georgia’s finest athletes took to the beaches, streets and paths Saturday at Don Carter State Park for Gainesville’s first-ever triathlon. The G-ville Rookie Splash and Dash and Super Sprint Triathlon had approximately 40 participants … |
The Barrie Examiner |
Many factors involved as local hospital deal with organ donations
The Barrie Examiner It could be one of the toughest questions you’ll ever be asked, yet with a little preparation, one of the easiest to answer. For the first time ever, more than half of the people approached agreed to donate their loved-one’s organs. The Trillium Gift … |
The Inquisitr |
iPhone Organ Donation? New iOS Update Could Save Lives
The Inquisitr “About one person dies every hour in the United States while waiting for an organ transplant, as the demand for lifesaving transplants is far more compared to the available supply of organs, Donate Life America President and CEO David Fleming said in a … Apple Pushing Organ Donation Within Health AppNasdaq |