19Jul/18

IRS nominee clears Senate panel despite Democrat opposition – KVEO-TV


KVEO-TV

IRS nominee clears Senate panel despite Democrat opposition
KVEO-TV
Earlier in the day, a session weighing Rettig’s nomination broke into a debate over the policy lifting donor disclosure requirements for thousands of groups, including those spending millions of dollars on political ads. Groups that will benefit
Some Democrats opposing nominee to protest IRS donor policyWBAL Radio

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19Jul/18

A Gay Catholic Could Overturn the FDA’s Restriction on Blood Donors. (Maybe.) – Patheos (blog)


Patheos (blog)

A Gay Catholic Could Overturn the FDA’s Restriction on Blood Donors. (Maybe.)
Patheos (blog)
When it comes to donating blood, you might be aware that gay men aren’t allowed to do it if they’ve had sex in the past year. (Technically, the ban applies to men who have had sex with men (MSM), which is slightly broader than just gay people.) The one

19Jul/18

A Carmel doctor wrote the law on organ donation 50 years ago, and it remains a model to this day. – Monterey County Weekly


Monterey County Weekly

A Carmel doctor wrote the law on organ donation 50 years ago, and it remains a model to this day.
Monterey County Weekly
They went on to help draft a state law allowing organ transplantation, and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws – formed in 1892, and later renamed the Uniform Law Commission – circulated the blueprint to all 50 states.

19Jul/18

A Carmel doctor wrote the law on organ donation 50 years ago, and it remains a model to this day. – Monterey County Weekly


Monterey County Weekly

A Carmel doctor wrote the law on organ donation 50 years ago, and it remains a model to this day.
Monterey County Weekly
Beginning in the 1960s, when human-growth hormone therapy was just emerging to treat very short children, medical examiners in Los Angeles and Minneapolis made a habit of harvesting pituitary glands from cadavers. They’d take the glands, located at the …