01Apr/17

Organ Donor week starts in Kildare today – Leinster Leader


Leinster Leader

Organ Donor week starts in Kildare today
Leinster Leader
Kildare’s All-Ireland ladies champions joined Martin Heydon TD and local Irish Kidney Association members recently to launch Organ Donor Awareness week at Hawkfield. Organ Donor Awareness Week 2017 will take place from April 1 to 8. The local Kildare …
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01Apr/17

Social media helping match donors with patients in need of kidneys – NorthJersey.com


NorthJersey.com

Social media helping match donors with patients in need of kidneys
NorthJersey.com
“It’s amazing to see the outcome, these people become a part of our family,” Flood said about both the recipients and the donors. April is organ donor awareness month, and people sign up for to be deceased donors when they die. But people don’t have to …

01Apr/17

Livingston County woman, 7 weeks after transplant, gives back with ‘Catwalk for Kidneys’ fashion show – The Livingston County News

Livingston County woman, 7 weeks after transplant, gives back with ‘Catwalk for Kidneys’ fashion show
The Livingston County News
Only one donated kidney is needed to replace two failed kidneys, which makes living-donor kidney transplant – about one-third of all kidney transplants – an alternative to deceaseddonor kidney transplant. Benefits to a living-donor kidney transplant

01Apr/17

Elgin teacher an advocate for organ donation – Chicago Tribune


Chicago Tribune

Elgin teacher an advocate for organ donation
Chicago Tribune
Kathy had become an advocate for organ donation — appearing in an Illinois Secretary of State pamphlet, regularly walking in American Liver Foundation events and speaking to drivers education classes about signing donation cards, said her husband, …
Elgin woman remembered for lifelong passion for teachingChicago Daily Herald

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