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Lois M. Collins: In death, an organ donor saved my family’s life
Deseret News Devie Thorpe hugs Rori Winterbottom as Rick Newlin wipes away a tear at LDS Hospital Monday afternoon,. Thorpe’s daughter, Cavie, was killed in an automobile accident four years ago and donated her organs, of which, Winterbottom received a kidney and … |
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Mamaye Advocacy Coalition organises blood donation exercise
Vibe Ghana The MamaYe Advocacy Coalition and Evidence for Action, an NGO, has organised a blood donation exercise to mark the International Women’s Day. A statement issued and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday said the event was part of … International Women’s Day And Efforts to Reduce Maternal MortalityGhana Broadcasting Corporation |
Organ donation: The agony and the ecstasyFrankston weeklyEven if a person has registered or made it known that they want to be an organ donor, their family will make the final decision. Requests to families for donation were made in about 710 cases las…
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Wonder fluid keeps cornea safe for 2 weeks
Times of India “In India, there is a requirement of about one lakh cornea donors each year for conducting eye transplant on the needy. The number of donations, however, remains around 46,000. Of this, 20-30% of the organs are wasted mainly because of unsuitability of … |
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‘Frankenstein’s Cat’: Bioengineering The Animals Of The Future
WFAE There’s a huge shortage of organ donors worldwide, so scientists just imagine that if you could have these pig farms that are just growing organs constantly, it might save a lot of lives. The problem is … rejection. It just shows the potential of if … |
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Thousands sign to join organ donor register
The Star New ‘inspiring’ figures show more than 3,300 residents have joined the NHS Organ Donor Register since the Gift of Life drive launched in January. The milestone marks a quarter of the target set by the campaign, which wants to sign up 12,000 local … Follow that bus and donate an organThis is Nottingham Kidney donor saves her brother’s lifecbs4qc.com |
Star Wars characters encourage blood donationWAVY-TVStar Wars characters encourage blood donation. Updated: Monday, 11 Mar 2013, 6:26 AM EDT Published : Monday, 11 Mar 2013, 6:26 AM EDT. NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Volunteers dressed in Star Wars costumes Sa…
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Recognising services
The New Indian Express The Rajasthan Shri awards were presented to Mohanidevi Chordia, B P Jain and R B Chowdhary for their contributions to different social causes — blood donation camps, organ donation drives, awareness campaigns through cinema, rain water harvesting, … |
Man organises blood camp to mark his 101st blood donationDaily BhaskarAhmedabad: He has been donating blood for years now. And when Binit Modi donated it for the 100th time, he decided to celebrate the occasion by holding a blood camp, where he would d…
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Man, 37, becomes Fujian’s 1st Taiwanese organ donor after death in Xiamen
What’s on Xiamen Wang Junjie, the 37-year-old Taiwanese organ donor, who suffered from hereditary hypertension, suddenly fainted due to a cerebral hemorrhage in his company’s dormitory a week ago. He was rushed to Zhongshan Hospital by colleagues. Wang lapsed into … |