The Dark Side Of Being An Organ DonorGizmodo AustraliaBut writing for the Wall Street Journal, Dick Teresi raises a more interesting point: the majority of organ donors are victims of head trauma, who end up being ruled dead based on brain-death criter…
Deaths/causes | PUBLIC RECORDS | Jan. 27 to Feb. 27Evansville Courier & Press21; brain death, intracranial hemorrhage Messamore, Wilda; 76, Boonville, Ind., Feb. 24; metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas Meyer, Tommie Ann; 86, Evansville, Feb. 16; …
Wall Street JournalWhat You Lose When You Sign That Donor CardWall Street JournalThe most likely donors are victims of head trauma (from, say, a car or motorcycle accident), spontaneous bleeding in the head, or an aneurysm—patients who can be ruled d…
Register online for organ donationTimes of IndiaNEW DELHI: Delhi government launched an online registration system for voluntary organ donation in brain death cases on Friday. Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) has been given the responsibi…
Macleans.ca (blog)Can donating organs be painful even after you've flatlined?Macleans.ca (blog)He explained that organ donation used to be performed in Canada only in “neurologically devastated” individuals who fit the criteria of “brain deat…
Govt launches online registration to boost organ donation in IndiaDaily News & AnalysisPlace: New Delhi | Agency: PTI Delhi Government today launched an on-line registration system for voluntary organ donation in brain death cases. Institute of Liver a…
The HinduDonate my organs after death: Health MinisterHimalayan Times“Nepal is an accident-prone country and every year around Bir Hospital handles about 100 brain death cases,” said Shrestha. He added if the brain death organ donation was a succes…
The News InternationalWorld Kidney Day 2012The News InternationalHowever, to guarantee life, irrespective of whether one can pay for it or not, the aim of the Kidney Day this year was to ask people to pledge their kidneys, that can be transplanted post…
Bangladesh News 24 hoursCall to push for kidneys from the brain-deadBangladesh News 24 hoursBangladesh Organ Donation Law 1999 allows posthumous or brain-death kidney donation apart from living close relatives, but steps are yet to be made to encourage…
Marking World Kidney DayCaymanian CompassKidney specialist Dr. Frits Hendricks will speak on the donation of living and post-mortem organs, as well as about the definition of brain death. There will also be interviews with transplant patients and donor…