26Nov/18

Event to promote organ donation, recognize engineering alum is Nov. 29 – Vanderbilt University News


Vanderbilt University News

Event to promote organ donation, recognize engineering alum is Nov. 29
Vanderbilt University News
29, Bryan and Janice Langford, and Kyle, Justin’s brother and a Vanderbilt biomedical engineering graduate in medical school here, will share the important message of organ donation during a special event in Featheringill Hall’s Adams Atrium at noon.

26Nov/18

The Decline of the Small Giver May Presage Decline of Some Small Nonprofits – Nonprofit Quarterly


Nonprofit Quarterly

The Decline of the Small Giver May Presage Decline of Some Small Nonprofits
Nonprofit Quarterly
In the fall 2018 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly, Patrick M. Rooney’s “The Growth in Total Household Giving Is Camouflaging a Decline in Giving by Small and Medium Donors: What Can We Do about It? paints a bleak picture for organizations like HOY

26Nov/18

Transplant patient develops cancer from donated kidney – BBC News


BBC News

Transplant patient develops cancer from donated kidney
BBC News
A woman who says a kidney transplant turned into a “death sentence” after she developed cancer from the donor organ is calling for an inquiry. Pauline Hunt, 49, from Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, thought she had been given a new lease of life last December
Transplant patient gets terminal cancer from donor kidneyMetro
Kidney transplant should have given me a new lease of life, not terminal cancer’: Patient diagnosed with deadly …Daily Mail
Transplant patient developed terminal cancer from kidneySTV News

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26Nov/18

#SwabforEllie: Collections planned at universities, CEGEPs to expand marrow donor registry – CTV News


CTV News

#SwabforEllie: Collections planned at universities, CEGEPs to expand marrow donor registry
CTV News
A campaign started in hopes of finding a bone marrow donor for a six-year-old girl battling leukemia for a second time will be setting up in several downtown locations this week so people can get swabbed and registered. After Ellie White’s story went