03Sep/18

Organ donation: Man’s nine-year wait for heart transplant – BBC News


BBC News

Organ donation: Man’s nine-year wait for heart transplant
BBC News
Father-of-two Gareth Evans has needed a heart transplant for nine years. The 45-year-old, from Stockport, has been waiting longer than anyone else in the UK on the current list of heart transplant patients. His health is declining and, as Organ
12 lives saved by organ donation in St Helens last year – but ‘a conversation could save more lives’ say Violet St Helens Star
Change the Law campaign’s Max Johnson to star in organ donation video with family of Keira Ball who saved his lifeMirror.co.uk
Urgent need for more to donate their organsLancashire Telegraph
Solihull Observer –Sky News
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02Sep/18

Miracle match pairs anonymous Lodi organ recipient with donor who lives just blocks away – Stockton Record


Stockton Record

Miracle match pairs anonymous Lodi organ recipient with donor who lives just blocks away
Stockton Record
Miracle match pairs anonymous Lodi organ recipient with donor who lives just blocks away …. “The boys feel like we’re related, that we’re family now,” Rostomily previously told UCSF Medical Center. “All four boys are on the same traveling baseball team.

02Sep/18

UK’s longest waiting patient for heart transplant pleads for more organ donors – The Guardian


The Guardian

UK’s longest waiting patient for heart transplant pleads for more organ donors
The Guardian
Anthony Clarkson, interim director for organ donation and transplantation at NHSBT, said: “People like Gareth are living moment to moment, in desperate need of someone saying ‘yes’ to donation – their lives depend upon a selfless organ donor and their …
Richmond mother urges people to consider organ donationRichmond and Twickenham Times
Organ Donation Week appeal in SomersetSomerset County Gazette
How To Opt In Or Out Of Organ DonationHuffPost UK
Powys County Times
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02Sep/18

Change the Law campaign’s Max Johnson to star in organ donation video with family of Keira Ball who saved his life – Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk

Change the Law campaign’s Max Johnson to star in organ donation video with family of Keira Ball who saved his life
Mirror.co.uk
Max Johnson is starring in a new video to promote Organ Donation Week today – with the family who saved his life. The poster boy for our Change the Law for Life campaign was filmed as he met the family of Keira Ball.

02Sep/18

NY man looking for kidney makes his plea on Times Square billboard – The Times of Israel


The Times of Israel

NY man looking for kidney makes his plea on Times Square billboard
The Times of Israel
The billboard, which went up late last week, was donated by a friend of Weiner’s wife, Lisa, who is the president of a national billboard company. Dawn Del Mastro-Chruma told CNN that she wants to spread awareness about the need for live kidney donors
Man uses Times Square billboard to find kidney donorWFMZ Allentown
Cancer survivor using Times Square billboard to find kidney donorNew York Post

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02Sep/18

‘You kind of have to find your own’: Why Canadians are turning to Facebook to find kidney donors – Globalnews.ca


Globalnews.ca

‘You kind of have to find your own’: Why Canadians are turning to Facebook to find kidney donors
Globalnews.ca
Michelle MacKinnon was at home alone, scrolling through Facebook one day in 2015 when a post caught her eye. It was the story of Taylum Lamoureux, a two-year-old boy who had spent the first six months of his life in hospital due to autosomal recessive …

02Sep/18

‘You kind of have to find your own’: Why Canadians are turning to Facebook to find kidney donors – Globalnews.ca


Globalnews.ca

‘You kind of have to find your own’: Why Canadians are turning to Facebook to find kidney donors
Globalnews.ca
Michelle MacKinnon was at home alone, scrolling through Facebook one day in 2015 when a post caught her eye. It was the story of Taylum Lamoureux, a two-year-old boy who had spent the first six months of his life in hospital due to autosomal recessive …