11May/15

‘You have your life back,’ transplant recipient, donor support annual walk – News Talk 980 CJME


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‘You have your life back,’ transplant recipient, donor support annual walk
News Talk 980 CJME
Born with poly cystic kidney disease, Deb Leisle started dialysis eight years ago. Four years later, while visiting a friend at St. Paul’s hospital, she met nurse Connie Cockrum. Cockrum learned of Leisle’s disease and need of a new kidney, and decided

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11May/15

Your health: A step toward universal blood donation – Chicago Daily Herald

Chicago Daily HeraldYour health: A step toward universal blood donationChicago Daily HeraldResearchers are working on a way to transform A and B blood into a type that, like O, could be universally donated. Daily Herald file photo. A step to universal …

11May/15

Over 1300 people attend special organ donor thanksgiving service at Ely … – Ely News


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Over 1300 people attend special organ donor thanksgiving service at Ely
Ely News
Guests included families who consented to organ donation, and patients who had life-saving transplants at Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals. Angela Waterhouse, a specialist organ donation nurse at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “This is the ninth …
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11May/15

Duncan: Presidential libraries should disclose donors – Knoxville News Sentinel


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Duncan: Presidential libraries should disclose donors
Knoxville News Sentinel
Duncan’s legislation requiring the disclosure of donations to presidential libraries has passed the U.S. House three times — in 2002, 2007 and 2009 — only to die in the Senate. But this year, identical legislation in the Senate has already won the

11May/15

Organ donation film strikes a chord – Basingstoke Gazette

Organ donation film strikes a chordBasingstoke GazetteBut time ran out for 28-year-old Sam, who died during filming, losing her battle with cystic fibrosis on April 4, 2013 following a three-year wait on the NHS Organ Donor Register. The former Kempsho…

11May/15

Union minister Nitin Gadkari, Mayor Pravin Datke pledge organ donation – Times of India


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Union minister Nitin Gadkari, Mayor Pravin Datke pledge organ donation
Times of India
Ravi Wankhede, in charge of Chennai-based Mohan Foundation from in Nagpur has been working hard for promoting organ donation for past few years, told TOI that Gadkari, Datke and Sancheti have also assured help in spreading awareness on body …
Nagpur’s organ donation drive gets a boost from GadkariNagpur Today

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11May/15

Nagpur’s organ donation drive gets a boost from Union minister Nitin Gadkari – Times of India


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Nagpur’s organ donation drive gets a boost from Union minister Nitin Gadkari
Times of India
Ravi Wankhede, in charge of Chennai-based Mohan Foundation from in Nagpur has been working hard for promoting organ donation for past few years, told TOI that Gadkari, Datke and Sancheti have also assured help in spreading awareness on body …
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