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Avion Solutions helps develop new tool in blood donation
WAAY The biometric solution uses vein patterns in the a donor’s finger to create an identifier unique to each person. The BIT (Biometric Indentification Tool) recently went through a three month test phase at two blood donation centers in Chattanooga … |
White House Hostage Policy Leaves Risk On Table For Third Parties – Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
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White House Hostage Policy Leaves Risk On Table For Third Parties
Mondaq News Alerts (registration) For example, the policy does not seem to protect unrelated donors. Most victims’ families would need to borrow or raise funds from third parties to meet a hostage-taker’s ransom demand, which can reach millions of dollars. Individuals and corporations … |
Sen. Casey’s organ donation bill aims to increase awareness – York Dispatch
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Sen. Casey’s organ donation bill aims to increase awareness
York Dispatch Gwen Summers, a reading specialist in Southern York County School District, watched as her husband, Kirk, waited for a liver transplant. Because organ donation touches the lives of so many Yorkers, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., wants to increase donation … Organ donation touched two in my lifeStandard Speaker Time to have that donor talk | VIDEOThe Maitland Mercury Wollondilly families urged to discuss their organ donation decisions during …Wollondilly Advertiser |
If the Obama presidency is winding down, why is his group Organizing for … – Washington Post (blog)
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If the Obama presidency is winding down, why is his group Organizing for …
Washington Post (blog) On June 30, Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group that grew out of Obama’s campaign machine, sent out a flurry of e-mails to potential donors announcing the impending conclusion of OFA’s fiscal quarter and requesting recipients chip in before … |
Pain relief could come from a ‘drugstore’ for cells – Science News for Students
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Pain relief could come from a ‘drugstore’ for cells
Science News for Students People might therefore be able to receive cells from unrelated donors, or even different species, Ji believes. Normally, a person’s immune system would reject such an injection of foreign cells. Cells might even be encouraged to make more TGFB1, Ji says. |
Time to have that donor talk | VIDEO – The Maitland Mercury
The Maitland MercuryTime to have that donor talk | VIDEOThe Maitland MercurySunday, August 2, marks the start of DonateLife Week, a national awareness campaign to promote organ and tissue donation in Australia. Australians have been urged to register t…
The House of Lords: ‘Scrap this repository for cronies and donors’ – The National
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The House of Lords: ‘Scrap this repository for cronies and donors‘
The National Shadow Leader of the Commons Pete Wishart said the House of Lords was held in contempt by Scots, who saw it as nothing more than “a repository for the cronies and donors of the UK parties”. “With its lords, ladies, baronets and earls it can only be … |
Organ donation touched two in my life – Standard Speaker
Organ donation touched two in my lifeStandard SpeakerMark was an organ donor, and his parents received letters from the Lions Eye Bank and from the Gift of Life donor program, notifying them that his organ donations were put to great use. To date, they…
Skin donor ‘heroes’ help north Queensland burns victim Dave Andersen recover – ABC Online
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Skin donor ‘heroes’ help north Queensland burns victim Dave Andersen recover
ABC Online Nearly 100 people in Queensland who died became skin donors in 2014. This number has been steadily increasing since 2011 when 33 people donated skin. 71 deceased organ donors from Queensland transformed the lives of 213 Australians in 2014. |
Mild Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors Improves Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients – UCSF News Services
Mild Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors Improves Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients UCSF News ServicesMild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compare…