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Don’t be Fooled by Questionable Charities
Wall Street Journal (blog) There is a wealth of online resources donors can use, as a recent Weekend Investor cover story detailed. Another important takeaway: Be particularly careful of groups related to causes that tug at the heartstrings and thus may lead a donor to drop his … |
Sperm & egg donations increasing risk of incest, Cambridge academic warns – RT (blog)
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Sperm & egg donations increasing risk of incest, Cambridge academic warns
RT (blog) More donor conceptions are taking place in the same regions, thereby increasing the chance of half-siblings meeting and beginning sexual relationships while completely unaware they are related. Director of the Centre for Family Research at the … |
Tear-jerking Argentinian organ donation advert about man and his dog goes viral – The Independent
The Independent |
Tear-jerking Argentinian organ donation advert about man and his dog goes viral
The Independent The advert which was uploaded onto YouTube by Argentina Foundation for Liver Transplant to try and encourage Argentinians to donate organs shows how strong the bond between dog and owner is even after the owner dies and has already amassed … Touching organ donation advert “The man and the dog’ will leave you in tearsTelegraph.co.uk The man and the dog organ donation video goes viralDaily Mail Touching Organ Donation Advert ‘The Man And His Dog’ Will Make You Want To …Huffington Post UK The Inquisitr –Zap2it.com (blog) –Metro all 15 news articles » |
Stem cell therapy for inherited skin blistering – Medical Xpress
Medical XpressStem cell therapy for inherited skin blisteringMedical XpressDuring the first six months of the trial, participants were given three infusions of mesenchymal stromal cells (stem cells) grown from the bone marrow of unrelated donors. Mesen…
Dying Well Matters: But Is A Good Death Possible? – Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
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Dying Well Matters: But Is A Good Death Possible?
Mondaq News Alerts (registration) This week is the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), Dying Matters Coalition, Dying Matters Awareness Week (DMAW), with the theme, ‘Talk Plan Live’. The aim being to highlight the importance of talking about dying and, importantly, of planning … |
Ohio lawyer has behind-the-scenes influence in conservative politics – Columbus Dispatch
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Ohio lawyer has behind-the-scenes influence in conservative politics
Columbus Dispatch Nonprofits can’t have election-related activity as their primary purpose and need not reveal their donors, making them attractive vehicles for anonymous political spending. Such groups’ politicking has proliferated since the decision. Langdon isn’t the … |
Push to name donors in political ads hits FCC roadblock – The Hill
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Push to name donors in political ads hits FCC roadblock
The Hill But the title of the House proposal — which overtly references GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch — indicates that the party sees it as more of a messaging bill than anything else. And a failed vote on the legislation in a House Energy and … FCC will not change rules on PAC donors identifying themselves in political adsAL.com |
Sam Asano’s Let’s Invent: Remembering inventor Gertrude Belle Elion – The Union Leader
The Union Leader |
Sam Asano’s Let’s Invent: Remembering inventor Gertrude Belle Elion
The Union Leader She went on to develop several epoch-making drugs, one of which enabled kidney transplant from unrelated donors. The world’s scientific community recognized her spectacular achievement and presented her with a Nobel Prize in Medicine shared with … |
Stem cell therapy for inherited skin blistering – HealthCanal.com
Stem cell therapy for inherited skin blisteringHealthCanal.comDuring the first six months of the trial, participants were given three infusions of mesenchymal stromal cells (stem cells) grown from the bone marrow of unrelated donors. Mesenchymal stem c…
Teacher’s 50th blood donation – The Press, York
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Teacher’s 50th blood donation
The Press, York IT MIGHT not be everyone’s idea of a birthday celebration, but this York teacher has marked her 50th year by giving her 50th blood donation. When she reached her mid-40s, Tang Hall Primary School teacher Fiona McCallion made it her mission to have … |