The Saturday Paper |
Opt-out organ donation | The Saturday Paper
The Saturday Paper While Britain looks set to pass an ‘opt-out’ organ donation law – reversing the principle of volunteering – even some transplant recipients are unconvinced such … Organ transplants: knowing more about where donors live could …The Conversation UK |
Bury Free Press |
Challenges boost Liam’s organ donation campaign
Bury Free Press An organ donation campaigner, who has had two life-saving transplants, has set himself two challenges to further promote his cause. Liam Byrne, of Bury St Edmunds, is writing personal letters to every MP in the country as well as local councillors … |
The Conversation UKOrgan transplants: knowing more about where donors live could …The Conversation UKIn 2017-18, a record number of people (1,575 in total) in the UK donated their organs after death, resulting in more than 5,000 life-saving or life-i…
NPRTrial Tests Organ Transplants For HIV-Positive Patients : Shots – NPRNPRHundreds of otherwise viable organs that are HIV-positive are wasted each year, while HIV-positive patients in need of transplants languish on waiting lists.Researchers Want To …
Lawrence Journal-World |
Local teen helps lead push for bill lessening restrictions on organ donation; law to go into effect this July
Lawrence Journal-World Last year, when reading the book again, Whisenant thought back to the section on opt-out organ donation. “Presumed consent” laws have already been implemented in several European countries and even a few U.S. states, including New York and Illinois. |
BBC News |
Educate children to tackle ethnic minority donor crisis, MPs say
BBC News School pupils should learn about organ and blood donation to help tackle the “silent crisis” of a lack of ethnic minority donors in England, a group of Labour MPs has said. Demand for blood, stem cells and organs in these groups is particularly high … |
BBC News |
Educate children to tackle ethnic minority donor crisis, MPs say
BBC News School pupils should learn about organ and blood donation to help tackle of the “silent crisis” of a lack of ethnic minority donors in England, a group of Labour MPs has said. Demand for blood, stem cells and organs in these groups is particularly high … |
Ahmedabad Mirror |
Gujarati hearts for transplant get wasted due to lack of policy and infrastructure
Ahmedabad Mirror Hardik Hadiya’s heart could not be offered to a needy patient in Maharashtra after two recipients in Gujarat refused the transplant, all because Gujarat government does not have an organ donation policy in place. While thousands of people seeking heart … |
Atlas ObscuraThe Vermont Town That Has Way Too Many OrgansAtlas ObscuraAfter nearly a century in operation, the organ factory had gone silent. And then, like the most improbable boomerangs, the organs started coming back. Families with old, unwanted Es…
CBS News |
Altruistic organ donor meets baby boy she helped save – CBS News
CBS News What saved 1-year-old Manolo Gonzales was a decision by Rebecca LaSalle, a complete stranger living 700 miles away. Montana woman’s “altruistic” organ donation saves CO boyKPAX-TV Montana woman’s “altruistic” organ donation saves Colorado boy …KTVQ Billings News |