Freeport Journal-Standard |
Gift of Hope: Minorities urged to sign donor cards
Freeport Journal-Standard FREEPORT — Freeport resident Kelvin Martin understands the importance of organ donation. He suffered three heart attacks and was in a medically induced coma for two weeks during the more than two years he spent waiting for a new heart. |
ScoopWhoopTo Promote Organ Donation, Govt To Now Give Preference To Donors And Their Kin For Kidney TransplantsScoopWhoopAccording to a report by the Times of India, more than two lakh people require kidney transplant every year in India but only about…
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Kidney Patient? Read How the New Transplant Policy Will Affect You
The Quint The organ donation gap just passed a ghastly milestone in India – last year around 5 lakh Indians died awaiting an organ transplant! That is more than the number of soldiers killed in all our wars put together. India has a rate of less than 0.2 donors … |
Bloomington Pantagraph |
People touched by organ donation tout life-saving program
Bloomington Pantagraph Natasha Schertz of Eureka became emotional while talking about her son, 8-year-old Kane, at right, a bone marrow transplant recipient, during Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s program promoting organ/tissue donation Tuesday at the Illinois Farm … |
KCRG |
Iowa Donor Network brings awareness to organ donation
KCRG NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) – There’s 120,000 people on the organ transplant list in the United States, and 600 of those are Iowans. Iowa Donor Network celebrates April as Donate Life Month. It’s a time to bring awareness to that number, and talk … |
Wicked Local |
Mother shares story of son’s organ donation at Braintree ceremony
Wicked Local Sandy Duffy, a Braintree resident for more than 50 years, had a special reason for participating in a ceremony recognizing April as Donate Life Month in Massachusetts and encouraging registering as an organ and tissue donor. Duffy spoke about her son … FROM THE ASSEMBLY: State Donate Life Registry seeks more organ donorsEagle News Online Benefits of organ donations shared during Braintree programThe Patriot Ledger Senate bills aim to get more NY’ers on organ donor listLegislative Gazette Crossville Chronicle –7thSpace Interactive (press release) –WJBC News all 12 news articles » |
FOX Illinois |
Giving The Gift Of Life Through Organ Donation
FOX Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WRSP) — Giving the gift of life is something area residents signed up to do at an organ donor recruitment drive Monday. One of Kent Boucher’s kidneys failed when he was 6-years-old. Then, just a few years ago, his other kidney was … |
The Daily News Journal |
Guest column: Organ donation creates family bond
The Daily News Journal It’s been said you have two families in life: the one you’re born into and the one you make. But I am part of another family, a family brought together by fate. The bond we share is that we are organ and tissue recipients whose lives were saved by the … ‘Don’t take your organs to heaven …’Bureau County Republican |
Mirror.co.uk |
Britain’s youngest organ donor changes 1000s of lives after saving twin brother at just 100 minutes old
Mirror.co.uk Since Teddy, who was a twin, became Britain’s youngest organ donor two years ago his parents know of eight lives his story has helped to save. But the true figure is almost certainly countless more because in the year after the Cardiff couple went … Britain’s youngest ever organ donor inspires thousands to registerDaily Mail |
Isle of Wight Radio |
‘Sign Up For Organ Donation‘ Urges Island Dad Ahead Of TV Film
Isle of Wight Radio An emotional encounter, between the parents of an Isle of Wight schoolgirl who died in Northwood in 2012 and the recipient of her heart, will feature on BBC TV this week. neal staley evey staley scarlett Evey Staley became an multiple organ donor … |