30Nov/14

Organ donation campaign attracts thousands – Yahoo! Maktoob News

Organ donation campaign attracts thousands
Yahoo! Maktoob News
More than 20,000 people participated in the Alkhobar carnival on Saturday for its “Let’s keep it on” or “Kllona Noheeha” campaign, which aims to increase the prevalence of organ donations. The campaign has been lauded by the Eastern Province Gov.

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30Nov/14

Memorial Medical Center launches kidney paired exchange program – The State Journal-Register

Memorial Medical Center launches kidney paired exchange program
The State Journal-Register
This sort of kidney “swap” has gone on nationwide since the 1990s but has grown in popularity the past few years because of a stagnant number of available kidneys from deceased donors and a growing number of people on transplant waiting lists

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30Nov/14

Blood donor policy may change to allow gay and bisexual men to be donors – Fayetteville Observer


Fayetteville Observer

Blood donor policy may change to allow gay and bisexual men to be donors
Fayetteville Observer
“We believe the current FDA indefinite blood donation deferral for a man who has sex with another man since 1977 is medically and scientifically unwarranted,” the organizations said in a joint statement last month. “The blood banking community strongly …
Feds review plan to let homosexuals donate bloodWND.com

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