24Aug/15

Organ donor’s reported ancestry depends on question format – Medical Xpress


Medical Xpress

Organ donor’s reported ancestry depends on question format
Medical Xpress
Common ancestry is key in connecting bone marrow donors to patients. If a patient needs to be matched at the HLA allele, DRBI*15:01, a potential donor with family origins in south east Asia is more likely to match than someone with South American ancestry.

24Aug/15

Apollo Hospitals Salutes Organ Donors – Celebrates “A second chance to live” – Business Wire India (press release)

Apollo Hospitals Salutes Organ Donors – Celebrates “A second chance to live”
Business Wire India (press release)
Apollo Hospitals also announced that it will run an awareness campaign on organ donation for 2 weeks to spread awareness on this supreme act of giving in schools, colleges, corporates, public sectors etc. The campaign was inaugurated today and will …

24Aug/15

China Top Organ Donor Among Asian Countries – Yibada (English Edition)


Yibada (English Edition)

China Top Organ Donor Among Asian Countries
Yibada (English Edition)
Huang Jiefu, head of a national human organ donation and transplant committee and chief author of the guideline, expressed hope that the public’s misunderstanding and prejudice toward donating organs after death would be answered and explained by the …
China Smoothes Ways for Organ DonationWomen of China
China releases organ donation guidelineecns
We have a moral obligation to donate organsThe Age

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24Aug/15

Badges for Life blood donation campaign begins – WJBC News


WJBC News

Badges for Life blood donation campaign begins
WJBC News
By Adam Studzinski. BLOOMINGTON – Eligible blood donors in Bloomington-Normal are being asked to roll up their sleeves and partner with local first responders this week in the 17th annual American Red Cross Badges for Life blood donation campaign.

24Aug/15

UKIP’s Tim Aker backs Aveley residents’ charity walk for organ donation – YOURTHUROCK


YOURTHUROCK

UKIP’s Tim Aker backs Aveley residents’ charity walk for organ donation
YOURTHUROCK
PATRICIA Carroll is walking from Lakeside to Southend and back in one day on Saturday 12th September in aid of the British Kidney Patient Association. She has been campaigning to raise awareness of organ donation since she lost her daughter Natalie …

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