23Dec/15

Church becomes organ donor! – Leicester Mercury


Leicester Mercury

Church becomes organ donor!
Leicester Mercury
‘Tis the season for giving – and one Leicestershire church is pulling out all stops with a generous offer. The Rev Simon Payne-Mivshuk, of Rothley Baptist Church, has contacted me to say that his church is becoming an organ donor! “In the course of

23Dec/15

Rackets Science: the Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015 (HR 2029) – CounterPunch

Rackets Science: the Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015 (HR 2029)
CounterPunch
It weakens financial regulation on big banks and rewards Congress for doing so by increasing campaign donation limits of big donors.” … Here’s the tick-tock: The same process used in 2014 was used again for the 2015 caper, stripping an unrelated bill

23Dec/15

New rules bringing kidneys to hardest-to-transplant patients – Worcester Telegram


Worcester Telegram

New rules bringing kidneys to hardest-to-transplant patients
Worcester Telegram
It’s been a year since the United Network for Organ Sharing changed rules for the transplant waiting list, aiming to decrease disparities and squeeze the most benefit from a scarce resource: kidneys from deceased donors. Now data from UNOS shows that

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23Dec/15

MK Shelly Yacimovich to Health Ministry: Let Israeli gay men donate blood – Jerusalem Post Israel News


Jerusalem Post Israel News

MK Shelly Yacimovich to Health Ministry: Let Israeli gay men donate blood
Jerusalem Post Israel News
Early this year, Yacimovich asked Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman a question on his blood donation policy after an anonymous tip to Magen David Adom led to the destruction of blood donated by a homosexual. Litzman directed MDA to change its …