20Oct/15

Facing Organ Donor Shortage, Patients Forced to Get Creative – Live Science


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Facing Organ Donor Shortage, Patients Forced to Get Creative
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Dr. Todd Pesavento is medical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation and interim executive director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Pesavento contributed this article to Live Science’s …

20Oct/15

Former Bay City Commissioner Recognized For Blood Donation Efforts – WSGW


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Former Bay City Commissioner Recognized For Blood Donation Efforts
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Former Bay City Commissioner Tom Baird who served in the early to mid 1980’s received a proclamation from the city for his on-going donation efforts through Michigan Blood. Baird who just turned 60 has been giving blood regularly every eight weeks
Man donates 35 gallons of bloodWNEM Saginaw

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20Oct/15

China’s Organ Donation Hit Record-High – NDTV


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China’s Organ Donation Hit Record-High
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… donors as of early October, marking a record-high after January’s ban prompted concerns about an acute shortage of organs,” Huang Jiefu, a former vice-minister of health and current head of the National Human Organ Donation and Transplant Committee
Hornchurch woman honoured for organ donationRomford Recorder
Dying mum waiting for lung transplant ‘has weeks to live’ as friends keep Mirror.co.uk

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20Oct/15

Dying mum waiting for lung transplant ‘has weeks to live’ as friends keep … – Mirror.co.uk


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Dying mum waiting for lung transplant ‘has weeks to live’ as friends keep
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According to NHS statistics, three people die in the UK each day waiting for an organ donor and this year saw the first drop in registers tot he organ donation list for 11 years. Figures also show only 58 per cent of families consent to a loved-one’s
Surge in immigrant driver’s licenses may have spurred more organ donorsSacramento Bee

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20Oct/15

For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time – New York Times


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For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time
New York Times
The dozens of offenders who showed up that day, old and young, filed out of the Perry County courthouse and waited their turn at a mobile blood bank parked in the street. They were told to bring a receipt to the clerk showing they had given a pint of