20Jan/17

Text alert scheme will ensure families in India get the message on organ donation – The Guardian


The Guardian

Text alert scheme will ensure families in India get the message on organ donation
The Guardian
Doctors in India are to get text alerts reminding them to ask families to donate the organs of deceased loved ones as part of a campaign to solve the country’s organ shortage, which has fuelled a black market trade. The drive, “Poochna mat bhoolo

20Jan/17

Vaughn Palmer: Horgan hell-bent on cleaning up well-heeled donations – Vancouver Sun


Vancouver Sun

Vaughn Palmer: Horgan hell-bent on cleaning up well-heeled donations
Vancouver Sun
The New Democrats also uncovered how fully 25 per cent of the Liberal swag — about $3 million in all — came from just 26 individual donors and their related companies. “A tiny number of millionaires have our premier in their pocket, and it has to end

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19Jan/17

Another Voice: We need to do more to increase organ donations – Buffalo News


KCTV Kansas City

Another Voice: We need to do more to increase organ donations
Buffalo News
To the 19,000 French waiting for organ transplants, this is a life or death game changer. While 80 percent of the French population favors organ donation, only 40 percent of family members actually follow through with their loved ones’ wishes to donate
Organ donations up nationally and locally, group saysKCTV Kansas City

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19Jan/17

Another Campaign Donor Gets A Top Ambassadorship, But That’s Par For The Course – NPR


NPR

Another Campaign Donor Gets A Top Ambassadorship, But That’s Par For The Course
NPR
“It’s a very different system. It’s easy to say that the U.S. system appoints ambassadors using criteria not related to merit or suitability,” Westamacott told this reporter in 2013 when he was still ambassador to the U.S. But, he added, “Often, it

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