20Jan/15

Awareness campaign launched for new organ donation legislation – Penarth Times


Penarth Times

Awareness campaign launched for new organ donation legislation
Penarth Times
A NEW wave of Wales-wide TV, radio, outdoor and online advertising has been launched as part of the ongoing ‘Time to Talk’ campaign about organ donation. In less than 12 months time on December 1 2015, Wales will become the first home nation to …

20Jan/15

UK’s first newborn organ donation by Hammersmith Hospital doctors – getwestlondon


getwestlondon

UK’s first newborn organ donation by Hammersmith Hospital doctors
getwestlondon
The UK’s first organ donation from a newborn has been carried out by Hammersmith Hospital doctors. A six-day old baby girl’s kidneys and liver cells were given to two separate patients after she died, in a procedure described as a milestone in the care

20Jan/15

The Supreme Court’s Billion-Dollar Mistake – The New York Review of Books (blog)


The New York Review of Books (blog)

The Supreme Court’s Billion-Dollar Mistake
The New York Review of Books (blog)
… Citizens United and related cases. The Court has found that contributions to candidates can be restricted because they pose the risk of quid pro quo corruption—when a representative essentially sells his vote to the highest donor. But according to

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20Jan/15

First successful organ donation from newborn in UK – Business Standard

First successful organ donation from newborn in UK
Business Standard
“It is due to the extreme generosity of the parents and wonderful professional collaboration between the neonatal team and the organ donation team that this process was successful,” the authors wrote in the Foetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of

20Jan/15

Academic freedom of faculty at stake in Koch-related records request – The College Fix


The College Fix

Academic freedom of faculty at stake in Koch-related records request
The College Fix
Hall serves as the executive director of the Center for Applied Economics, a think tank that is independently funded by the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation among other donors, but which operates out of the university’s business school. Hall also

20Jan/15

The tricky subject of baby organ donation – Telegraph.co.uk


Daily Mail

The tricky subject of baby organ donation
Telegraph.co.uk
How to become an organ donor. If you want to be a donor, add your name to the register and tell those closest to you. This will make it easier for them to ensure donation goes ahead in the event of your death. There are a number of ways you can join
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Public Release: 19-Jan-2015 First successful organ donation from newborn EurekAlert (press release)
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20Jan/15

Medical first means newborn is Britain’s youngest organ donor – Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk

Medical first means newborn is Britain’s youngest organ donor
Telegraph.co.uk
The case – the first successful organ donation from a newborn to be carried out in the UK – is reported in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. The child’s kidneys, were transplanted into a patient with renal failure, and