04Nov/16

Helping hands: NASCAR driver promotes organ donations – Longview News-Journal


Longview News-Journal

Helping hands: NASCAR driver promotes organ donations
Longview News-Journal
Organ donation is a personal focus for Gase. He lost his mother in 2011 after a sudden brain aneurysm, and his family was asked if she would like to be an organ, eye and tissue donor. Gase’s family’s decision to donate her body helped 66 other people.

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04Nov/16

Leominster woman who received ‘greatest gift’ five years ago continues to campaign for more people to sign organ … – Hereford Times


Hereford Times

Leominster woman who received ‘greatest gift’ five years ago continues to campaign for more people to sign organ
Hereford Times
A donor could enhance the lives of at least nine people.” In September, during national transplant week, she attended an event at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she helped set off balloons and promoted the importance of organ donation. Last year

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04Nov/16

Study finds Americans would be more likely to donate a kidney if offered $50K – Fox 59


Fox 59

Study finds Americans would be more likely to donate a kidney if offered $50K
Fox 59
However, Dr. Taber said there is one solution staring at us in the face right now: if more people gave organs through deceased donation, he said, the wait list would be gone. For Korporal, someone’s gift changed her life. Even though she sits on that

04Nov/16

Will a pig’s organs replace human organ donation and ease the transplant wait list? – KUTV 2News


KUTV 2News

Will a pig’s organs replace human organ donation and ease the transplant wait list?
KUTV 2News
BALTIMORE (WBFF) — From a seventh floor office at the Johns Hopkins Hospital medical campus in East Baltimore, organ transplant surgeon Dr. Andrew Cameron reflects on his day so far. “This morning we had a 5-year-old child in the operating room for a …

04Nov/16

Will a pig’s organs replace human organ donation and ease the transplant wait list? – Fox Baltimore


Fox Baltimore

Will a pig’s organs replace human organ donation and ease the transplant wait list?
Fox Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WBFF) — From a seventh floor office at the Johns Hopkins Hospital medical campus in East Baltimore, organ transplant surgeon Dr. Andrew Cameron reflects on his day so far. “This morning we had a 5-year-old child in the operating room for a …