03Apr/17

What We’re Reading: Senior Citizen Caregivers; Dwindling ACA Plans; Organ Donation Tax Credit – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

What We’re Reading: Senior Citizen Caregivers; Dwindling ACA Plans; Organ Donation Tax Credit
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
Millennials aren’t the only children moving home: more and more senior citizens are moving back to be near their elderly parents. A Kaiser Health News article highlights the growing trend of very old parents and their elderly children aging together.

03Apr/17

Genetic Details of Controversial “Three-Parent Baby” Revealed – Scientific American


Scientific American

Genetic Details of Controversial “Three-Parent Baby” Revealed
Scientific American
Researchers do this by exchanging the diseased mitochondria of a prospective mother with those of a healthy, unrelated donor: the ‘third parent’. In this case, a team led by Zhang, who works at the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City, removed

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03Apr/17

Dr. Kevin Most: Organ Donation – WGN Radio


WGN Radio

Dr. Kevin Most: Organ Donation
WGN Radio
Is there need for organ donors? Yes, we have close to 120,000 individuals currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. In the United States we perform over 30,000 transplants each year. Unfortunately 8,000 people die each year waiting for a
Should Organ Donors in New Jersey Get Tax Credit?NBC 10 Philadelphia
Teen organ donation could help save more livesNorthern Star Online
New Jersey Bills Call for $1K Tax Credit to Organ DonorsU.S. News & World Report
WJXT Jacksonville –Donegal Democrat –Irish Times
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03Apr/17

Local couple share amazing living donor story on Late Late Show – Offaly Express


Offaly Express

Local couple share amazing living donor story on Late Late Show
Offaly Express
A couple from Rosemount on the Offaly/Westmeath border, who met under unusual circumstances in Co. Offaly, have shared their extraordinary story to raise awareness for Organ Donor Awareness Week (April 1-8). The couple, Ken Byrne and Aine O’Keeffe, …

03Apr/17

‘After the transplant, I looked in the mirror and my eyes weren’t yellow anymore, they were white’ – thejournal.ie


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‘After the transplant, I looked in the mirror and my eyes weren’t yellow anymore, they were white’
thejournal.ie
The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) has instead called for an organ donor registry to be set up to “increase the number of deceased organ donors”, in line with the HSE’s National Consent Policy. Speaking at the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week, IKA …