04Feb/16

World Cancer Day: Why is the disease still a taboo? – The Independent


The Independent

World Cancer Day: Why is the disease still a taboo?
The Independent
Ms Al-Qadhi says that such projects have also had a positive effect on attitudes towards breast cancer: “Thanks to high profile awareness campaigns, such as Breast Cancer Awareness Month which we brought to the UK in 1995, breast cancer is talked about …

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04Feb/16

Organ donation review urges sector changes – SBS


SBS

Organ donation review urges sector changes
SBS
She says, sometimes the subject of organ donation can be challenging to breach. “One of the challenges is that it is a subject that’s related to death, what we do with our bodies after death, and I think sometimes people don’t like talking about death
Delmonico: Living organ donation should be a financially neutral actMyStatesman.com

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04Feb/16

Gift of Life CEO says northwestern Ontario leader in organ donation registration rates – CBC.ca


CBC.ca

Gift of Life CEO says northwestern Ontario leader in organ donation registration rates
CBC.ca
“Would you save a life, if you could?” The president and CEO of the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), Ronnie Gavsie, says it’s a question she wants everyone in Ontario to be asking themselves, and their families. Data released Wednesday by the

04Feb/16

One million people across England, North Wales now registered to book blood donation appointments online – News-Medical.net


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One million people across England, North Wales now registered to book blood donation appointments online
News-Medical.net
One million people across England and North Wales are now registered to book donation appointments online, making it one of the largest digital booking systems of any blood service in the world. NHS Blood and Transplant’s www.blood.co.uk website …
Tupelo United Blood Services Needs DonorsWCBI
United Blood Services calls for area donors to restore blood supplyWDAM-TV

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04Feb/16

Delmonico: Living organ donation should be a financially neutral act – MyStatesman.com

Delmonico: Living organ donation should be a financially neutral act
MyStatesman.com
It is encouraging to note data from the United Network for Organ Sharing that shows more than 30,000 organ transplants were performed in the United States last year, reaching the highest total in the country’s history. Nevertheless, the supply of

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04Feb/16

Organ donation campaign launches video in Urdu to raise awareness in the Asian community – 2BR

Organ donation campaign launches video in Urdu to raise awareness in the Asian community
2BR
The ‘It’s About Time’ project will soon be available to watch in Urdu. It focuses on the lack of people registered on the donor list from the Asian community, despite over a quater of people waiting for a transplant being from that background. Organ …

04Feb/16

As snow piled up Tuesday, blood donations at one Siouxland blood – Siouxland Matters


Siouxland Matters

As snow piled up Tuesday, blood donations at one Siouxland blood
Siouxland Matters
“This week’s blizzard caused us to shut some of our donor centers down for a few days, we had to cancel dozens of mobile blood drives and over the past few days we have lost 900 units of blood. So that’s a really frightening time for us and our

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