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Man’s T-shirt plea for kidney leads to live organ donor match
KTIC (NEW YORK) — The magic of Disney, the power of social media and the generosity of a stranger have come together to change the life of one New Jersey man. Last summer, Robert Leibowitz went to Disney wearing a T-shirt with a plea for a kidney written … |
Post teams up with City of Burlington for blood donation campaign – InsideHalton.com
InsideHalton.comPost teams up with City of Burlington for blood donation campaignInsideHalton.comThe Burlington Post is partnering with the City of Burlington and Canadian Blood Services to encourage local residents to give blood. The campaign, officia…
Son’s death spurs charitable holiday tradition for couple – KHOU
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Son’s death spurs charitable holiday tradition for couple
KHOU In 2014, they donated 250 stuffed animals to a children’s hospital. “At that point we knew there was no stopping no turning back,” Adam said. Today, under the name Tyler’s Toyz, their house is filled with more than 3,200 stuffed animals, which will all … |
College Football Teams Mount Blitz to Lock In Donors’ Tax Breaks … – Bloomberg
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College Football Teams Mount Blitz to Lock In Donors’ Tax Breaks …
Bloomberg Colleges are rushing to help wealthy donors lock in a federal tax break, which subsidizes the sales of college sports tickets and costs taxpayers $200 million a year. |
More living organ donors needed, doctors say – Montreal – CBC News – CBC.ca
CBC.caMore living organ donors needed, doctors say – Montreal – CBC NewsCBC.caWith demand for organs outstripping supply, and potentially long wait times for transplants, doctors want more Canadians to consider becoming living organ donors.and more&nbs…
Peterborough family of boy with ‘half a heart’ make Christmas appeal – BBC News
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Peterborough family of boy with ‘half a heart’ make Christmas appeal
BBC News Ms Hardy, 31, makes the 200-mile (326km) trip up north every week in rotation with her fiancé Davy to keep Benjamin company through his gruelling treatment regime. The little boy was diagnosed with the heart condition in the womb at 24 weeks‘ gestation … |
How Deceased Organ Donation Is Saving Lives in Pakistan – The Wire
How Deceased Organ Donation Is Saving Lives in Pakistan The WireMedical science has evolved rapidly over the last century or so but has yet to attain a level at which organ transplantation can become a routine remedy, …
Transplant patient’s Christmas plea: talk to your family about organ donation – The Guardian
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Transplant patient’s Christmas plea: talk to your family about organ donation
The Guardian Families are being urged to talk about becoming an organ donor in the hope that more people on the waiting list for a heart transplant will be given the chance of life. Since last Christmas Day, 31 people have died on the heart transplant waiting list … Call made for organ donors as six patients await heart transplantsShields Gazette NHS Issues Desperate Plea As Number On Heart Transplant Waiting List Rises By 24%HuffPost UK |
Transplant patient’s Christmas plea: talk to your family about organ … – The Guardian
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Transplant patient’s Christmas plea: talk to your family about organ …
The Guardian With hundreds waiting for heart transplants, experts and patients urge public to register as organ donors – and make their wishes clear to family members. Call made for organ donors as six patients await heart transplantsShields Gazette Significant rise in number of people waiting for heart transplant …Yorkshire Evening Post Hampshire residents urged to donate following a deadly shortage of organsBasingstoke Gazette Birmingham Mail –BBC News –2BR all 9 news articles » |
How Deceased Organ Donation Is Saving Lives in Pakistan – The Wire
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How Deceased Organ Donation Is Saving Lives in Pakistan
The Wire The other person – let us call him Taimur – says he was leading a miserable life prior to the transplant. He used to visit SIUT three times a week for dialysis that took a total of 12 hours of his time. He was in his early 20s at the time but could not … |