14Jul/15

Petition launched to reform organ donation system – Salisbury Journal


Cambridge News

Petition launched to reform organ donation system
Salisbury Journal
A SALISBURY woman who received a life-saving transplant has set up a petition calling for reforms to the organ donation system in the UK. Lucy Ryan had a heart transplant in 1993, a month before her third birthday. In April she celebrated the 22nd …
Why the Cambridge Transplant Unit at Addenbrooke’s is ‘unique’Cambridge News

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14Jul/15

Donald Trump Being Wrong About Everything and Unelectable Doesn’t Make … – Huffington Post


Huffington Post

Donald Trump Being Wrong About Everything and Unelectable Doesn’t Make
Huffington Post
What matters in such instances is a) fidelity to a dexterous and idiosyncratic psychic pathology that permits one to move through daily tasks with hope and determination, coupled with b) an awareness of (if not an over-sensitivity to) the fact that

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14Jul/15

India Freezes Ford Foundation Funding… – Foreign Policy (blog)


Foreign Policy (blog)

India Freezes Ford Foundation Funding…
Foreign Policy (blog)
Ford Foundation, a leading global charity has had $4 million of its funding to India frozen, after a clampdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on donors perceived to be interfering in domestic politics (Reuters). The government
Ford relief option on PMO tableCalcutta Telegraph

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14Jul/15

Hand, face, and uterus transplants for trauma victims pose ethical dilemmas … – Genetic Literacy Project


Genetic Literacy Project

Hand, face, and uterus transplants for trauma victims pose ethical dilemmas
Genetic Literacy Project
But patients seeking a VCA transplant only have to wait days or weeks to receive one from a deceased donor, and VCAs don’t, biologically at least, save lives. So there isn’t much justification for donations from the living. Except that it does increase

14Jul/15

HIV infections and deaths still in decline – The Economist


The Economist

HIV infections and deaths still in decline
The Economist
The headline figures, of the number of AIDS-related deaths and new infections a year, have fallen since 2005 by 41% and 24% respectively. They now stand at 1.2m and 2m. … Some will come from international donors. The Global Fund—an international …
World can end AIDS epidemic by 2030, finance conference hearsIrish Times
Kaiser/UNAIDS Study Finds Slight Increase In Donor Government Funding for SYS-CON Media (press release)

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