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Tomhawk Classic affected, Sarah Beth Whitehead Memorial cancelled
Jackson Sun Sarah Beth’s family donated her organs, and they use the tournament to spread awareness of spinal meningitis and organ donation. “We hate to not have the tournament played, so we hope to get it in one way or another,” Yates said. The Tomahawk Classic … |
Red Cross in need of blood donations – Salisbury Post
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Red Cross in need of blood donations
Salisbury Post The Red Cross needs blood donations after last month’s winter weather caused the organization to miss out on tens of thousands of blood and platelet donations. Winter weather caused more than 26,000 donations to go uncollected in February. Natividad … Red Cross Has Urgent Need for Local Blood DonationsReston Now Blood donors urgently needed after nearly 1000 blood drives canceled since …New Bern Sun Journal Donors urgently needed after nearly 1000 blood drives canceled by severe …Southgate News Herald Patch.com –WOODTV.com all 137 news articles » |
Ask The Ethicist: Organ Donation, ‘House Of Cards’ Health Policy, Sickness And … – WGBH NEWS
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Ask The Ethicist: Organ Donation, ‘House Of Cards’ Health Policy, Sickness And …
WGBH NEWS So being an organ donor isn’t as simple as checking the box on your drivers license? Polls show that most people want to be donors. […] The default is you opt in, you have to say, I wanna do this. [Support is] probably 70, 80 percent for organ donation. |
Two Michigan Men Who Are Longtime Friends Discover They Have Same Organ … – International Business Times AU
International Business Times AU |
Two Michigan Men Who Are Longtime Friends Discover They Have Same Organ …
International Business Times AU Gordon Veldman and Fred Nelis became friends 10 years ago through mutual friend. The two men in their 60s had organ transplant surgeries on June 28, 2014, at the Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Michigan. They were unaware of each other’s … Friends saved by same organ donorWZZM Friends Get Organ Transplant From Same DonorABC News Two Friends Become ‘Transplant Brothers’Siouxland Matters 13WMAZ –Patch.com all 83 news articles » |
2015 sees good start, but doc say long way to go – Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & Analysis |
2015 sees good start, but doc say long way to go
Daily News & Analysis This year has been a good year for kidney patients, with more cadaver donations happening. Welcoming the encouraging pattern, doctors say kidney patients can now hope that their wait for organs won’t stretch to years. “In past two weeks, there has been … |
The law of unintended consequences – Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & Analysis |
The law of unintended consequences
Daily News & Analysis For patients, the hurdles begin once the diagnosis is made. Not every patient with the disease is fortunate to have a family member who is consenting, compatible and fit, to donate a kidney. A dismal 4% patients are able to undergo a ‘related‘ donor … |
Tucson organ donor to be honored at Phoenix NASCAR race – KGUN 9
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Tucson organ donor to be honored at Phoenix NASCAR race
KGUN 9 Caitlin says Nick decided at age 15 that he wanted to be an organ donor and only five years later in 2012, his family came face to face with that decision. “The donation process was probably the only silver lining we had when everything was happening … |
China Sheds Light on Organ Donor Program – Wall Street Journal (blog)
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China Sheds Light on Organ Donor Program
Wall Street Journal (blog) Mr. Huang is the director of China’s Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and a senior member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a government advisory body that is holding its annual session in Beijing. China had … MSPs to consider organ donation opt-out petitionScotsman Organ donation petition deferredGlasgow South and Eastwood Extra Doubts over China prisoner organ harvesting banJakarta Post AsiaOne all 39 news articles » |
Acute Kidney Injury May Not Preclude Transplant – Medscape
Diabetes InsiderAcute Kidney Injury May Not Preclude TransplantMedscapeIn light of reasonable 6-month graft function, clinicians should consider kidney transplant from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI), according to a multicenter study pub…
‘Half of infected blood donors don’t report for treatment’ – The Indian Express
The Indian Express |
‘Half of infected blood donors don’t report for treatment’
The Indian Express Half of those who donated blood at a Delhi government hospital and tested positive for infectious diseases in mandatory tests conducted at the blood bank, did not respond to communications by the hospital staff to intimate them of the test result … |