21Nov/14

Mum met life saving donor 30 years after being told she’d be dead in 12 months – Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk

Mum met life saving donor 30 years after being told she’d be dead in 12 months
Mirror.co.uk
Doctors said that her only chance of survival was to find an unrelated donor through Anthony Nolan, which had far fewer potential donors on its register than it does today. At the time, nobody with CML in the UK had ever undergone a bone marrow

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21Nov/14

Efforts to increase blood donation – spyghana.com

spyghana.comEfforts to increase blood donationspyghana.comA sensitization workshop for Pledge Clubs in the Eastern Region to help raise the number of voluntary blood donors and increase blood donation in the southern part of Ghana by 5,000 units within…

21Nov/14

Blood Sport: Fusing Blood Donations And Violent Video Games – Technabob (blog)


Fast Company

Blood Sport: Fusing Blood Donations And Violent Video Games
Technabob (blog)
Out there, right now, there are people with a dire need for your blood, and 99.98% of them aren’t vampires. Instead, they’re in need of medical attention. Donating blood is a good thing to do because it can save lives and preserve the vampire race. If
This Game Is Out For Blood. LiterallyFast Company
Blood Draining Game Peripheral Needs $250K From KickstarterThe Escapist

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21Nov/14

Cleveland Clinic’s second-ever face transplant signals new life for patient … – cleveland.com


cleveland.com

Cleveland Clinic’s second-ever face transplant signals new life for patient
cleveland.com
… co-leaders of the transplant team. After meeting with and being evaluated by not only physicians and surgeons, but also with a psychiatrist and bioethicist, the patient consented to a face transplant, in which he would get a face graft from a

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21Nov/14

Shortage of organ donors – YLE News


ThinkProgress

Shortage of organ donors
YLE News
The 2010 change to legislation regarding organ donation has not helped reduce the lineups of those waiting for suitable transplant organs. Every year about 300 organ transplants are carried out, while some 400 would-be recipients wait in a queue for a …
LifeCenter hosts 12th annual breakfast honoring organ donorsWLWT Cincinnati
Why More Than 120000 Americans Can’t Get The Organ Transplant They NeedThinkProgress
Family of Newsome teen Olivia Glennie receive award after organ donation Huddersfield Examiner
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