26Sep/16

Organ Donor wins Volunteer of the Year – Liverpool Echo


Liverpool Echo

Organ Donor wins Volunteer of the Year
Liverpool Echo
A Wirral grandfather who donated a kidney on his 65 birthday and has since encouraged over 6,000 people to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register has been announced as Wirral University Teaching Hospital’s Volunteer of the Year. Paul Dixon, a 68-year

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26Sep/16

US-MED–HealthBeat-Infant Organ Donation – Yahoo News


Yahoo News

US-MED–HealthBeat-Infant Organ Donation
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ultrasound showed one of Sarah Gray’s unborn twins was missing part of his brain, a fatal birth defect. His brother was born healthy but Thomas lived just six days. Latching onto hope for something positive to come from heartache, …

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26Sep/16

“I felt loved that I had someone willing to donate for me” – Norwich man benefits from remarkable chain of donations – Norwich Evening News


Norwich Evening News

“I felt loved that I had someone willing to donate for me” – Norwich man benefits from remarkable chain of donations
Norwich Evening News
Most kidney transplant patients receive an organ from a deceased donor but a shortage of these means many people do not receive the life-saving transplant they need. The NHS is therefore encouraging people to become “altruistic donors” – meaning they …

26Sep/16

A mother’s journey of discovering effects of donating deceased child’s organs – Deccan Chronicle


Deccan Chronicle

A mother’s journey of discovering effects of donating deceased child’s organs
Deccan Chronicle
In recovering tissue from deceased donors, hospitals consult a national registry of researchers’ current needs. On that day in 2010, Thomas died at home in his father’s arms. The organ agency retrieved his body, and recovered his eyes and liver. Blood

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