26Feb/16

Airdrie man awaiting double lung transplant issues plea for organ donation – CTV News


CTV News

Airdrie man awaiting double lung transplant issues plea for organ donation
CTV News
As Mark Dolter spends his 219th consecutive day in the Peter Lougheed Centre’s intensive care unit, the 51-year-old is sharing his story in the hopes that more people will sign the organ donor form on their health care cards. Dolter has been diagnosed

26Feb/16

Student will die of aggressive leukaemia within two months if she doesn’t find stem cell donor – Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk

Student will die of aggressive leukaemia within two months if she doesn’t find stem cell donor
Mirror.co.uk
Her hopes now rest on finding a closer match from an unrelated donor. She said: “I’m blessed to love what I do, so I was desperate to get back to my studies. “I asked if I could go back to uni, and I remember the doctors looking at me and saying no way.
Charity launches worldwide appeal to save the life of young LondonerEvening Standard
This severely-ill student is facing a race against time to find a stem cell donorWalesOnline

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26Feb/16

‘Somebody else’s miracle’: Organ donation gives life to many – East Oregonian (subscription)


East Oregonian (subscription)

‘Somebody else’s miracle’: Organ donation gives life to many
East Oregonian (subscription)
Stan and Maddy were both registered organ donors, and over the course of three terrible weeks, the members of my extended family got a crash course in the delicate, complex and high-stakes process of organ donation and placement — and we discovered …

26Feb/16

Bruno and His Banda He Saike Strongly Advocate Organ Donations – teleSUR English


teleSUR English

Bruno and His Banda He Saike Strongly Advocate Organ Donations
teleSUR English
As the campaign got underway, Saike looked for a song that represented some of the ideas and issues he wanted to highlight related to organ donation. He decided on “Sueño Dorado” by Argentine singer Abel Pintos, and created a new version of the song …

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