21Mar/16

Two KOTA Territory residents raise awareness to kidney disease and donations – Kotatv


Kotatv

Two KOTA Territory residents raise awareness to kidney disease and donations
Kotatv
Rapid City Sheriff’s Office Booking Technician Taylor Erickson donated his kidney to his mother June 2015 after watching her go through dialysis three days a week due to kidney failure. … He believes everyone should consider being an organ donor.

21Mar/16

Blood drive at Allendale Elementary honors local fourth-grader – Spring Hill Home Page


Spring Hill Home Page

Blood drive at Allendale Elementary honors local fourth-grader
Spring Hill Home Page
To date, the annual Allendale Elementary Blood Drive has collected over 120 pints of blood. “The students and faculty at Allendale have been so amazing in supporting us in everything we’ve gone through,” Jacqueline Gardner said. “A blood donation is

21Mar/16

When the kids call you mom, but the law doesn’t – Lansing State Journal


Lansing State Journal

When the kids call you mom, but the law doesn’t
Lansing State Journal
She is the biological parent of the daughter, who was conceived using a sperm donor. But she’s not biologically related to the son, who was conceived using a donor egg and a donor sperm. Hopps carried and delivered the baby boy, but never adopted him.
Same-sex custody battle: When law doesn’t call you momDetroit Free Press

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21Mar/16

Muscatine woman wants to raise awareness for National Kidney Month – Quad City Times


Quad City Times

Muscatine woman wants to raise awareness for National Kidney Month
Quad City Times
A golf outing for organ and tissue donation awareness, the Iowa Transplant Open, is associated with the Iowa Donor Network, and will be held in Muscatine on May 21. For more information about the Iowa Transplant Open, call Doug Stewart at 563-506-3389.
Wife’s greatest gift: I gave her my heart now she’s giving me her kidneyScottish Daily Record

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21Mar/16

Dying Canadian flies to Hong Kong to be given part of wife’s liver by HKU transplant team – South China Morning Post (subscription)


South China Morning Post (subscription)

Dying Canadian flies to Hong Kong to be given part of wife’s liver by HKU transplant team
South China Morning Post (subscription)
Lo’s team has since performed thousands of live liver donations in Hong Kong. “Unlike Hong Kong, Canada has a much better rate of organ donation from deceased donors,” Lo said. “We have to rely on live donation to save lives, but Canada does not have a …

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21Mar/16

Blood donation camps held – The Hindu

Blood donation camps held
The Hindu
The students of the Excel Group of Institutions here donated 430 units of blood at two separate voluntary blood donation camps organised by the Rotaract Clubs of these institutions recently. The blood donation camps were conducted under the “Mahadan” …

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