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Leominster rallies for organ donations: ‘Sadly, people will die waiting for one’
Sentinel & Enterprise LEOMINSTER — As Lancaster’s Kim Sazama discussed the importance of organ and tissue donation Monday morning at City Hall, it was hard to imagine that only four short years ago, with her lungs failing from cystic fibrosis, she only had weeks to live … |
Transplant Wishes Honoured Locally – BlackburnNews.com
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Transplant Wishes Honoured Locally
BlackburnNews.com President and CEO Colin Patey marked organ and tissue donation awareness week by pointing to training and increased staff ability to deal with the sensitive issues. “It is our role to identify the potential donors from our patient population and in … |
Central African Republic: People With Disabilities Left Behind – Human Rights Watch
Human Rights WatchCentral African Republic: People With Disabilities Left BehindHuman Rights WatchHamamatou, a 13-year-old girl polio survivor, was abandoned by her family after their village was attacked by anti-balaka forces in Central African Republ…
Organ donation, research part of annual Congress this week – NephrologyNews.com
NephrologyNews.comOrgan donation, research part of annual Congress this weekNephrologyNews.comNearly 5,000 transplant professionals will gather in Philadelphia later this week for the 15th annual American Transplant Congress (ATC). The event is the joi…
The Telling Room gives young immigrant writers a voice – Boston Globe (subscription)
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The Telling Room gives young immigrant writers a voice
Boston Globe (subscription) The Telling Room was founded by a trio of Portland-based writers, Susan Conley, Sara Corbett, and Mike Paterniti, Corbett’s husband, who came up with the center’s name, which oddly would end up doing double duty as the title for his unrelated 2013 book … |
“2 For You” Seeks Additional Blood Donations – WUWF
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“2 For You” Seeks Additional Blood Donations
WUWF With summer coming up, a notoriously slow time of the year for blood centers, the firm OneBlood is asking donors to double up. Summer is one of the periods each year, when blood donations drop to very low levels. That’s when school is out and families … |
Mayo Clinic Survey: 60% Would Like to be Organ Donors – FOX 21 Online
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Mayo Clinic Survey: 60% Would Like to be Organ Donors
FOX 21 Online Mayo Clinic conducted a survey to get some insight about people’s perception of being a donor. It found more than 60 percent would like to be organ donors and more than 60 percent have already signed organ donation cards or talked to their family about … |
Gulf Coast Medical Center temporarily suspends living donor kidney transplant … – Naples Daily News
Naples Daily NewsGulf Coast Medical Center temporarily suspends living donor kidney transplant …Naples Daily NewsGulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers has temporarily suspended its living donor kidney transplant program after a donor death, prompti…
Why putting Ford Foundation under ministry of home affairs scanner is distressing – Economic Times (blog)
Why putting Ford Foundation under ministry of home affairs scanner is distressingEconomic Times (blog)One, it reinforces the perception among civil society that space for dissent and free speech is shrinking, and two, because like the Tata Trusts among…
Blood donation exercise organised in Ashaiman – GhanaWeb
Blood donation exercise organised in AshaimanGhanaWebThe Ashaiman Municipal Assembly, in collaboration with BC Global Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Saturday organised a blood donation exercise at Ashaiman. Fifty pints of blood we…