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LETTER: Organ donation story was inspirational
Asbury Park Press Your June 23 story about Caroline Duerr, “Neptune girl’s organ donation saved four lives” was inspiring. Every year since my wife’s liver transplant in 1998, during organ donation month, I have been writing a letter to the Press urging people to make … |
WHIODecision to become organ donor can save eight livesWHIOThe numbers associated with organ donation are staggering with more than 120,000 men, women and children waiting on the call that will save their life. On average, 21 people die each day due to…
Denbighshire Free PressWoman uses sheep to raise issue of organ donationDenbighshire Free PressA WOMAN has come up with a unique way to get people to think more about organ donation. Jan Dacombe, 58, from Cyffylliog has been knitting sheep, which she h…
News North WalesWoman uses sheep to raise issue of organ donationNews North WalesA WOMAN has come up with a unique way to get people to think more about organ donation. Jan Dacombe, 58, from Cyffylliog has been knitting sheep, which she has been leavin…
WPXI Pittsburgh |
2-year-old with end-stage liver disease undergoes transplant surgery
WPXI Pittsburgh Another child receiving an organ from the same donor was also in surgery Thursday morning. The offer for the life-saving donation came Tuesday, and while the liver is of a different blood type, doctors said a successful transplant is possible. Lucas … Sick boy’s family launches media blitz for donor organWTAE Pittsburgh 2-year-old with end-stage liver disease receives offer for direct organ donationWSB Atlanta Boy, 2, Desperately In Need Of Liver Transplant Receives First OfferCBS Local |
Organ donor support fine tunedPS NewsAssistant Minister for Health, Senator Fiona Nash said employers offering leave to employees who were donating organs would now receive extra support with the extension of the Supporting Leave for Living Organ Donor…
The Voice Online |
DJ Daddy Ernie to host organ donation poster award ceremony
The Voice Online VIBES FM DJ Daddy Ernie will host a special event for winners of a school poster competition in Brent aimed at raising awareness of organ donation in the black community. Brent’s Capital City Academy students had until mid May to come up with poster … |
Organ donations could save thousands: Health MinisterVietNamNet BridgeDemand for body organs for life-saving transplants in Vietnam is high but supplies are low. This is because hundreds of people with terminal ailments – or their relatives – refuse to…
NDTV |
Four lives saved through organ transplant in Delhi
Mid-Day New Delhi: A-42-year-old person, who was declared brain dead at a private hospital here, saved the life of four people after his family members consented to donating his organs including the heart and both kidneys. According to the doctors — the … 42-Year-Old Man, Declared Brain Dead, Becomes 9th Cadaver Donor at AIIMSNDTV 42-yr-old man becomes 9th cadaver donor at AIIMSThe Siasat Daily AIIMS’s 9th this year, cadaver donor saves 4 livesTimes of India |
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Placerville woman elected to board of national organ transplant network
Sacramento Bee (blog) “The hospital followed the national protocols and notified the organ recovery agency that a brain-dead declaration was impending for him,” Santana said. “I had no recollection at that time that Scott and I had talked about donation. I can remember now … Cabinet nods amendment to Organ Transplantation ActBangladesh News 24 hours |