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Easing ban on blood donations a good step
Columbus Dispatch The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to change its blood–donation guidelines might not make an enormous difference in the available blood supply, but it will help. It also gets rid of a decades-old prohibition that wasn’t based on current scientific … |
Finding donor organs is harder than it used to be – Sioux City Journal
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Finding donor organs is harder than it used to be
Sioux City Journal Lehman founded Doug’s Donors, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and improving life through education and awareness of organ donation. … Now, he undergoes treatment four hours a day, three days a week at Siouxland Dialysis. “A lot of … |
Thanks to these Good Neighbors Fund donors through Dec. 19 – Roanoke Times
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Thanks to these Good Neighbors Fund donors through Dec. 19
Roanoke Times … supports the Emergency Financial Assistance Program administered by Roanoke Area Ministries. It helps families who need emergency money for utility bills, medicine, rent or transportation, regardless of race or religion. Donors to this year’s fund … |
Miracle Match Marathon helps those needing transplants – Waco Tribune-Herald
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Miracle Match Marathon helps those needing transplants
Waco Tribune-Herald “With the costs paid for them, donors can join for free,” she said. “The more donors who join, the more patients will find a donor, and more lives will be saved. Every dollar raised from the race stays in Central Texas to tissue type, mainly students … |
A kidney has no gender – Nepali times
Nepali timesA kidney has no genderNepali timesAfter transplants were first performed in Nepal six years ago, nearly 400 patients have received kidneys from donors. But 90 … Zarina sobbed as she related this from her hospital bed last week after final…
‘I donated blood and made Santa happy’ – Times of India
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‘I donated blood and made Santa happy’
Times of India CHANDIGARH: As people celebrated Christmas, a few took a pledge to please Santa in their own special play. At the behest of the NGO Emerging Youth Blood Donors‘ Organization (EYBDO), 900 people got their photographs clicked with Santa pledging to … |
A year after organ transplants, Easton girl, 9, ‘feels healthy enough to be a kid’ – Bangor Daily News
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A year after organ transplants, Easton girl, 9, ‘feels healthy enough to be a kid’
Bangor Daily News “She has had no issues with organ rejection. They have cut down a lot on the amount of medication that she has to take. Prior to the organ transplant surgery, her skin tone was very yellow due to jaundice. Now, she has a normal skin tone, and it became … |
Give One Last Gift This Holiday Season With A Blood Donation – CBS Local
WEAUGive One Last Gift This Holiday Season With A Blood DonationCBS LocalDETROIT (WWJ) – The American Red Cross encourages eligible blood donors to give one last gift this holiday season and discover the true meaning of giving by donating blood. Busy h…
Israel easing blood donor restrictions, but not on Brits – Haaretz
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Israel easing blood donor restrictions, but not on Brits
Haaretz If the answer to that question is that you were in the United Kingdom for more than a combined total of six months, then you have a restriction you may not be aware of: you can’t donate blood in Israel. This has been the rule for over a decade and it … |
WWI Christmas Truce football match: Fact or fiction? – WZVN-TV
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WWI Christmas Truce football match: Fact or fiction?
WZVN-TV Hundreds of youngsters have visited war sites and memorials, while the players they watch each and every week in the Premier League have also taken time to remember. “If we can get young people to learn their history by using education and football … |