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Liver donor for 8 year old does not think he is a ‘hero’
Ottawa Sun At a time when living organ donations are becoming more routine — live kidney transplants are now more common than deceased transplants — Budel is still a rarity. Liver transplants, which are riskier and more invasive, are less common, and liver … |
A Rare Domino Organ Transplant Gives Two Women New Lives – WJBF-TV
WJBF-TVA Rare Domino Organ Transplant Gives Two Women New LivesWJBF-TVAnd Tammy received the heart and lungs from a deceased 21-year-old donor. Tammy had Cystic Fibrosis. Receiving lungs was critical; her heart was still functioning well but was pushed…
The Basics: UConn Foundation transparency bill wins final passage – The CT Mirror
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The Basics: UConn Foundation transparency bill wins final passage
The CT Mirror The state House of Representatives gave final passage Monday to a bill that will increase the information the University of Connecticut’s private fundraising arm must make public. The bill now heads to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s desk. |
Auto-ped victim spreads word about need for blood donations – Laredo Morning Times
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Auto-ped victim spreads word about need for blood donations
Laredo Morning Times “Monica wants to spread the word about the need for blood,” said Liza Guzman, South Texas Blood and Tissue Center donor recruitment consultant for Laredo. “She wants the community to know how important it is to donate because you never know when … |
2017 Donate Life Float Depicts Spectacular Polynesian Catamaran, Celebrates Organ Donors and Recipients as … – Marketwired (press release)
Marketwired (press release)2017 Donate Life Float Depicts Spectacular Polynesian Catamaran, Celebrates Organ Donors and Recipients as …Marketwired (press release)LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – May 03, 2016) – On behalf of sponsors and honorees acros…
Carrier Screening Firms Question Methods of Study That Finds Their Assays Deficient – GenomeWeb
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Carrier Screening Firms Question Methods of Study That Finds Their Assays Deficient
GenomeWeb GenePeeks’ Silver agreed that it would not make sense to disqualify all 27 donors from the sperm bank because they carried mutations in one of the 4,813 genes related to disease. And GenePeeks itself doesn’t screen all those genes, but a subset of 479. |
Drumming up the donors on Big Day of Giving in Sacramento – Sacramento Bee
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Drumming up the donors on Big Day of Giving in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee Drumming up the donors on Big Day of Giving via social media. It’s the third annual Big Day of Giving, a 24-hour online blitz to help nonprofit agencies. In Sacramento, the goal is $6 million and 30,000 donors, with 570 groups in the region benefiting. |
How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals – Mongabay.com
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How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals
Mongabay.com The biggest foundation in the world, completely devoted to the well-being of people yet reluctant to engage on issues related to the environment.” The grant was awarded to develop a system, dubbed Vital Signs, to monitor environmental and social data … |
De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis – Capital New York
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De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis
Capital New York It’s that angle on the mayor’s current problems that the administration has pushed most forcefully — that Cuomo, for political reasons, is behind the most visible of the current scandal storylines, related to his fundraising for Senate Democrats … |
America’s Heroin Epidemic Is Actually Helping Those Waiting For Organ Transplants – Medical Daily
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America’s Heroin Epidemic Is Actually Helping Those Waiting For Organ Transplants
Medical Daily Yet, in a morbid twist of fate, it has also positively impacted another problem within the United States health care system: an ever-growing need for organ donors. As the number of people who have lost their lives from heroin overdoses has increased … |