04May/18

Galesburg woman among group to set world record for living donors – Galesburg Register-Mail


Galesburg Register-Mail

Galesburg woman among group to set world record for living donors
Galesburg Register-Mail
GALESBURG — On Saturday, April 21, at Chicago’s Millennium Park, more than 1,200 people gathered. The group included 438 living organ donors, meaning they’d given an organ already in their lives. It was a commemoration for National Donate Life Month

04May/18

Mysterious outside group funding last-minute opposition to longtime GOP representative – News & Observer


News & Observer

Mysterious outside group funding last-minute opposition to longtime GOP representative
News & Observer
Dacey, a federal lobbyist for Native American tribes, has received more than $41,000 from tribal and gambling-related donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That total ranks him 15th in the country among all House candidates. Dacey

04May/18

EDITORIAL: Dispel misconceptions, consider organ donation – Pauls Valley Daily Democrat

EDITORIAL: Dispel misconceptions, consider organ donation
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat
Jeffrey Orlowski, president and CEO of the nonprofit LifeShare agency that manages the state’s organ donor registry, cites several misconceptions about organ and tissue donation that are keeping the other 40 percent from being donors. Some believe if

04May/18

Kornfeld: Living organ donation enhances the donor’s life, too (column) – Vail Daily News


Vail Daily News

Kornfeld: Living organ donation enhances the donor’s life, too (column)
Vail Daily News
I am one of the few people who walk into a hospital perfectly healthy to undergo major surgery. In 2004, I did just that. I donated a kidney to my father. Ten years earlier, he was one of the world’s first successful double-lung transplant recipients

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04May/18

The NRA can be so secretive about its Russian donors because it blocked campaign finance reform – NBCNews.com


NBCNews.com

The NRA can be so secretive about its Russian donors because it blocked campaign finance reform
NBCNews.com
As the National Rifle Association gathers for its annual convention in Dallas, questions loom about the organization’s relationship with Russian donors, and whether any Russian money went towards the NRA’s multimillion dollar efforts to support the

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04May/18

Blood donation stanched by distance to clinics – Salmon Arm Observer


Salmon Arm Observer

Blood donation stanched by distance to clinics
Salmon Arm Observer
Not being able to donate blood locally is enough to make Julie Funfer’s boil. An avid blood donor since Grade 12, Funfer was disappointed to learn, after moving to Salmon Arm about a year ago, that the nearest blood donation clinics are in Vernon and