08Jan/16

Giving the gift of life through organ donation – Stuff.co.nz


Stuff.co.nz

Giving the gift of life through organ donation
Stuff.co.nz
On May 12, 2015, my 9-year-old son received a liver transplant from someone whose own family was grieving. Within a few hours their own child went from fun-loving and carefree to being a brain dead organ donor. How incredibly hard it must have been for …
Delaware woman’s unusual plea for kidney donorsThe News Journal
Donations of organs set records in some areasPittsburgh Post-Gazette

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08Jan/16

Philippines contraception funding cut will fuel HIV and maternal deaths: Activists – Channel News Asia


Channel News Asia

Philippines contraception funding cut will fuel HIV and maternal deaths: Activists
Channel News Asia
“Women are dying from maternal complications, teens are getting pregnant and people are dying from HIV-related causes. Lives of Filipino citizens are at stake,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone. The Philippines, a largely Catholic …

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08Jan/16

CarePoint Health’s organ donation outreach earns gold level recognition – NJ.com


NJ.com

CarePoint Health’s organ donation outreach earns gold level recognition
NJ.com
CarePoint Health was recently awarded U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gold Level Recognition for its efforts to increase enrollment in the New Jersey state organ donor registry and spread the life-saving message of organ and tissue …
CarePoint Health Achieves Gold Level Recognition In Federal Effort To Increase Satellite PR News (press release)

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08Jan/16

Dugdale: Scotland needs opt-out organ donation system – Scotsman


Scotsman

Dugdale: Scotland needs opt-out organ donation system
Scotsman
Edinburgh has the highest support for organ donation in the whole of the UK, a national survey last year found. A total of 56 per cent of people in Scotland’s capital said they had joined the Organ Donor Register – ahead of closest rivals Plymouth and

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