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Valley’s O-negative blood supply drops below 9 percent, donations needed
Fresno Bee Ongoing trauma and emergency room use up and down the Valley, and several weather-related accidents caused the demand for blood to spike, the Blood Center said. Trauma center patients used almost all the Valley supply of O-negative blood, which has … |
National transplant system reports record number of donors for 2015 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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National transplant system reports record number of donors for 2015
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The nation’s transplant system broke ground on numerous fronts last year, posting record numbers of organ donations and transplants, increasing donation by minority groups and garnering more organs from living donors, officials said Wednesday. Deceased … Organ transplants pass 30000 milestone6abc.com Record number of organ transplants performed in 2015: ‘A testament to the …Outbreak News Today More than 30000 transplants performed annually in US for first timeNephrologyNews.com Quartz –Daily Record all 19 news articles » |
HISD board to consider rolling back ethics rules – Houston Chronicle
HISD board to consider rolling back ethics rulesHouston ChronicleThe city of Houston caps donations from individuals at $5,000 but does not require council members to abstain from related votes. Judicial candidates have limits ranging from $1,000 to $5…
The Watermark opens in downtown Beaver Dam – WiscNews
WiscNewsThe Watermark opens in downtown Beaver DamWiscNewsJulie Piltz showing visitor Paul King around the finished Watermark building located at 209 S. Center St. Evonne Boettge, community activities and services administrator said her department is s…
Banking on a loan that fell through led to Frost museum’s cash woes – Miami Herald
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Banking on a loan that fell through led to Frost museum’s cash woes
Miami Herald Borrowing money to build is a common approach for cultural groups that depend on donations because very often promised money doesn’t come in until years later — when, for instance, a donor who has left the museum the money in a will dies. Very often … |
Rick Scott scuttled Florida child health standards to protect hospital chain … – Raw Story
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Rick Scott scuttled Florida child health standards to protect hospital chain …
Raw Story Rick Scott’s (R) administration was accused of eliminating health standards related to childrens’ heart surgery only after a hospital chain failing to meet them donated $200,000 to state Republicans. “The coincidence is just a little too much … |
Pump new billions into disease outbreaks—or else – Science /AAAS
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Pump new billions into disease outbreaks—or else
Science /AAAS “The World Bank, bilateral, and other multilateral donors should declare that funding related to health system strengthening will be conditional upon a country’s participation in the external assessment process,” one recommendation states. By mid-2017 … |
Héma-Québec proposes rule changes on blood donations from gay men – CBC.ca
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Héma-Québec proposes rule changes on blood donations from gay men
CBC.ca Héma-Québec and Canadian Blood Services hope to eliminate some of the barriers gay men face when it comes to donating blood. CBC French-language service, Radio-Canada, has learned those agencies are jointly proposing that Health Canada change … |
Determining death may depend on which state, hospital you’re in – Chicago Tribune
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Determining death may depend on which state, hospital you’re in
Chicago Tribune Hospital staff missed several signs that Burns’s brain was still functioning the night she was due for organ donation surgery: her nostrils flared, her lips and tongue moved, she was breathing “above the ventilator” (meaning, taking breaths of her own … |
Gift of liver, a gift of life for Peter Brouwer – St. Catharines Standard
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Gift of liver, a gift of life for Peter Brouwer
St. Catharines Standard Peter has been on the Trillium Gift of Life’s wait list for a deceased donor since last spring, a spot he shared with some 245 other people in Ontario who are waiting for a liver. In Ontario, from last January to November, there were 51 living liver … |