07Feb/16

New music video with Rachel Platten boosts Elle’s Wishes campaign – Nantwich News


Nantwich News

New music video with Rachel Platten boosts Elle’s Wishes campaign
Nantwich News
They said: “Our aim is to release the video as a charity download to raise awareness for Organ Donation – with proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Hospital. “We need permission from Columbia records to do this, however we are going to upload it onto …

07Feb/16

An organ donor and the Delhi police give two kidney failure patients a new life – TheHealthSite

An organ donor and the Delhi police give two kidney failure patients a new life
TheHealthSite
Two kidney failure patients got a fresh lease of life on Sunday, thanks to the noble deed of a family in donating organs of a brain-dead patient and some timely help from Delhi Police. A 38-km ‘green corridor’ was created to transport the harvested

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07Feb/16

France Limits Blood Donation Among People Arriving From Zika-Hit States – Sputnik International


Sputnik International

France Limits Blood Donation Among People Arriving From Zika-Hit States
Sputnik International
“We are taking measures to ensure that their [donors] blood contains no virus. Those who arrive from countries affected by the virus must not donate blood before a 28-day period expires,” Touraine told Europe-1 radio network. The current Zika outbreak …
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07Feb/16

Excerpt: ‘Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right’ – The National Memo (blog)


The National Memo (blog)

Excerpt: ‘Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right’
The National Memo (blog)
Like Mrs. Astor’s famous 400, which defined the top bracket of New York society in the late nineteenth century on the basis of those who could fit into the Astors’ ballroom, the Kochs’ donor list provides another portrait of a fortunate social subset

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07Feb/16

Free Kirk backs Scottish voluntary organ donation – BBC News

BBC NewsFree Kirk backs Scottish voluntary organ donationBBC NewsA former moderator of the Free Church of Scotland has urged the Scottish government to look at a more efficient system for organ donation. Prof Donald MacDonald argued that this would be …

07Feb/16

We can no longer say being an organ donor is all too hard | EDITORIAL – The Maitland Mercury

We can no longer say being an organ donor is all too hard | EDITORIAL
The Maitland Mercury
If you’re healthy enough, there really isn’t any excuse not to register as an organ donor, especially given the news that the federal government is making it easier to do so. Australians will soon be able to register as organ donors by taking 10