24Sep/15

UK HealthCare Celebrates Kentucky’s Longest “Kidney Donor Chain” – UKNow (press release)


Business Wire (press release)

UK HealthCare Celebrates Kentucky’s Longest “Kidney Donor Chain”
UKNow (press release)
“Research shows that patients who are able to receive a kidney from a live donor have much better outcomes than those who receive a kidney from a deceased donor,” said Dr. Stephen Strup, chief of the UK Division of Urological Surgery. “That’s not
Living Donation California Celebrates 100 Direct Living Kidney Donor Candidate Business Wire (press release)

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24Sep/15

Body farm donors go public on their decisions to donate corpses – Sydney Morning Herald


Sydney Morning Herald

Body farm donors go public on their decisions to donate corpses
Sydney Morning Herald
Another donor, 75-year-old Carol Cruikshank, of Lake Illawarra, doesn’t believe she is at death’s door, as much as anyone can predict these things. Other than being diabetic and a bit overweight, she describes herself as relatively active, except in

24Sep/15

Organ donor numbers rise in lead up to new law – ITV News


ITV News

Organ donor numbers rise in lead up to new law
ITV News
The number of organ donors is rising in the lead up to Wales’ historic change in the law. An official report also says the number of people in Wales who die waiting for a transplant is falling. More than 1 hundred thousand people have signed up to the
dispelling myths about organ donationWetaskiwin Times Advertiser
More than 100000 people sign up to be organ donors in Wales ahead of historic WalesOnline

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24Sep/15

Donors of Caribbean descent sought for bone marrow registry – Cayman Compass


Cayman Compass

Donors of Caribbean descent sought for bone marrow registry
Cayman Compass
Caucasians of European descent have the highest probability – 75 percent – of finding an optimal unrelated bone marrow donor, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Black people in the Caribbean, on the other hand, have a 19 …
Be the match for a cancer patientHuntersville Herald

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