05Apr/16

Afterlife: Six people alive and well thanks to Phoenix-area organ donor – KTAR.com

Afterlife: Six people alive and well thanks to Phoenix-area organ donor
KTAR.com
PHOENIX — Six people in the Phoenix area are alive and well thanks to a young Mesa organ donor who died in 2014. Marissa “Roo” Pummill, an avid animal lover and artist, passed away at her home in Mesa on Oct. 18, 2014. Days later, a man who had …

05Apr/16

A look at the most popular article on NephrologyNews.com in March – NephrologyNews.com


NephrologyNews.com

A look at the most popular article on NephrologyNews.com in March
NephrologyNews.com
23, 2015, 12 living kidney donors have died in the United States within 30 days of donation from causes determined to be medical in nature, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN). “These deaths are not necessarily related to …

05Apr/16

Aunt gives ‘best wedding present ever’ to her niece – a life-saving kidney – Irish Mirror


Irish Mirror

Aunt gives ‘best wedding present ever’ to her niece – a life-saving kidney
Irish Mirror
The Irish Kidney Association’s Organ Donor Awareness Week continues until Saturday. People can help by carrying a donor card, downloading the Smartphone app and permitting code 115 to be included on their driver’s licence. You can also donate €2 from …

05Apr/16

New York Legislature considering bill to force police to disclose more information – wivb.com


wivb.com

New York Legislature considering bill to force police to disclose more information
wivb.com
… by Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and Senator Daniel Squadron, both Democrats, would require police departments to follow a single, statewide process for reporting information about everyday arrests — as well as cases in which a person is killed while

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05Apr/16

Fordham Football to Host “Be the Match” on April 12 – Fordham University Athletics


Fordham University Athletics

Fordham Football to Host “Be the Match” on April 12
Fordham University Athletics
Bronx, N.Y. – For the fourth straight year, the Fordham University football program will host a program called “Be the Match”, a program geared towards increasing the number of potential bone marrow donors on the Be The Match Registry. The 2016 program …

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05Apr/16

Watch transplant patient make emotional thank-you to teen organ donor who saved her life – Manchester Evening News


Manchester Evening News

Watch transplant patient make emotional thank-you to teen organ donor who saved her life
Manchester Evening News
Almost 180 of the operations performed last year were kidney transplants using organs from deceased donors, like Samantha’s, while a further 106 kidney transplants used organs from living donors. “Kidney transplants transform the lives of patients who