05Oct/15

Library participates in organ donor registry campaign – Hometownlife.com

Hometownlife.comLibrary participates in organ donor registry campaignHometownlife.comAbout 3,400 people are waiting for a life-saving organ in Michigan. Nationwide, the number stands at 123,000. Twenty-one people die each day because an organ transplan…

05Oct/15

Heart transplant nurse and patient back organ donor campaign – Daily Echo

Daily EchoHeart transplant nurse and patient back organ donor campaignDaily EchoA SOUTHAMPTON nurse who cared for heart transplant patients and had a new heart herself has backed a campaign to get more people onto the organ donor register. Lesley Burch…

04Oct/15

Letter: ‘Magic’ of new sight due to an organ donor – Island Packet

Letter: ‘Magic’ of new sight due to an organ donor
Island Packet
An eye surgeon, Dr. David Vroman of North Charleston, recently performed an intricate partial human tissue transplant of my cornea called DMEK. In this process, the cornea was split and a layer of human donor tissue was substituted for my diseased tissue.