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Friday News Roundup: Judge To Decide Whether To Block Horse Slaughter
KUNM The move has divided horse rescue and animal welfare groups, ranchers, politicians and Indian tribes about what is the most humane way to deal with the country’s horse overpopulation. NM Groups Push For Minority Organ Donation – Associated Press. |
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True Stories | Reconstructing Sonali Mukherjee
Livemint Sonali’s surgeries were made possible by generous donations from non-governmental organizations, individuals, corporate firms and media houses, apart from the prize money of Rs.25 lakh—about Rs.16 lakh after income-tax deduction, which she won at … |
Organ Recipient Speaks About the Importance of Organ DonationFox 2 KFXVThe first week of August is minority organ donation awareness week, here what message one organ receiver has for the public. Meet Iliana Rodriguez, an organ recipient expressing the…
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There Are So Many More Options If You Want To P*ss Off Liberals
Raw Story I highly recommend Alex Pareene’s dead-on description of what’s going on with Ted Cruz and the Republicans who, while also batshit themselves, at least are reality-attached enough to oppose a government shutdown as a petulant kind of revenge for … |
University of Pune to encourage students to pledge organsTimes of IndiaPUNE: The University of Pune (UoP) has initiated steps to incorporate organ donation pledges on the identity cards of students who are above the age of 18 and who voluntarily make s…
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Holby City: BBC accused of risking lives in “reckless” portrayal of organ …
Mirror.co.uk The BBC was last night accused of risking lives and ignoring professional medical advice in a “reckless” portrayal of organ donation in Holby City. Five million viewers watched this week’s episode which centred on a heart-swap plot about a teenage girl … |
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Quigley continues leading efforts to revise discriminatory blood donation policy
ChicagoPride.com Washington, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL), U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) … Sen. Warren Pushes To End Blood Donation BanWBUR Massachusetts Senator wants blood donation policies re-evaluatedWCVB Boston Sen. Warren calls ban on gay men’s blood donations ‘contrary to science …Boston.com The New Civil Rights Movement –RT (blog) –Metro Weekly all 15 news articles » |
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India’s rate of organ donation compares poorly with other countries
Times of India More and more Indians must admit a wish to their families to donate organs and carry an organ donor card. With such a card at hand, a family’s understandable sentiment against disturbing a beloved’s body … Combine this with the fact that even … |
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Vision regained, beliefs blinded
Times of India The generosity of Pateliya’s family has touched those working to encourage organ donation. The large family is solely dependent on fishing and struggles to make ends meet. The family does not even own a boat and its members work as sailors for other … |
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Memorial Blood Centers and Kolar Toyota double the impact of blood donation …
Ashland DAily Press Local nonprofit Memorial Blood Centers and Kolar Toyota are teaming up this summer to offer generous volunteers a special reason to donate blood and help save man’s best friend. Step up to donate blood at the upcoming August Kolar Toyota Blood Drive … Donate blood this month and help Second Harvest Food ShelvesHibbing Daily Tribune |