07Jul/15

Oil boom royalites extend Texas Scottish Rite Hospital’s mission – Dallas Morning News


Dallas Morning News

Oil boom royalites extend Texas Scottish Rite Hospital’s mission
Dallas Morning News
With the oil boom, the hospital has received roughly $500 million in oil and gas royalties over the past four years, most of it related to a West Texas ranch donated to the organization in the 1960s. Those royalties helped the not-for-profit hospital

07Jul/15

MP Will Tell Obama ‘Shut Up and Go Home’ if He Pushes Pro-Gay Agenda in … – NBCNews.com


NBCNews.com

MP Will Tell Obama ‘Shut Up and Go Home’ if He Pushes Pro-Gay Agenda in
NBCNews.com
Kenyans took to the street Monday against homosexuality and a lawmaker said that he will tell President Obama to, “shut up and go home” if he tries to push a pro-gay agenda when he visits the country later this month. Last month’s U.S. Supreme Court …

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07Jul/15

Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries – Chippewa Herald


Chippewa Herald

Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries
Chippewa Herald
First-person consent makes donation easier on families because they can honor a choice the deceased person made instead of having to decide themselves, said Mike Anderson, executive director of UW Organ and Tissue Donation, the Madison-based …
UW Hospital a leader in alternative to brain death organ donationJournal Times
Ananish Chaudhuri and Tom Schnackenberg: ‘Opt out’ organ donoring needed New Zealand Herald

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06Jul/15

Imminent death organ donation could help others, stir distrust – La Crosse Tribune


La Crosse Tribune

Imminent death organ donation could help others, stir distrust
La Crosse Tribune
Bender signed up to be an organ donor in the early 1990s, long before his arms and legs started becoming weak four years ago. He was diagnosed with ALS, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, in February 2014. He has used a wheelchair since last summer, …

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06Jul/15

Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries – La Crosse Tribune


La Crosse Tribune

Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries
La Crosse Tribune
First-person consent makes donation easier on families because they can honor a choice the deceased person made instead of having to decide themselves, said Mike Anderson, executive director of UW Organ and Tissue Donation, the Madison-based …
Ananish Chaudhuri and Tom Schnackenberg: ‘Opt out’ organ donoring needed New Zealand Herald

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06Jul/15

Following Feasibility Study, UK Registry Plans to Implement PacBio for HLA … – GenomeWeb

Following Feasibility Study, UK Registry Plans to Implement PacBio for HLA
GenomeWeb
“What we do know [is that] somebody who has an HLA-identical sibling still does better in many scenarios than people who have an unrelated donor. We believe that at least some of those differences are going to be between the patient and the donor in