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The life-saving gift of organ donation
WTHR Her family honored their daughter’s decision to become an organ donor. “Knowing that Kelsey had signed her driver’s license, made it easier for us to honor that decision and follow through with that,” said Kelsey’s father Mark Mikel. “Her organ … Organ donor’s family, recipients to celebrate gift of life during Rose ParadeFox 59 |
Organ donor’s family, recipients to celebrate gift of life during Rose Parade – Fox 59
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Organ donor’s family, recipients to celebrate gift of life during Rose Parade
Fox 59 “If we could make any good come out of Kelsey’s death we were gonna do that and organ donation was the beginning of that,” said father, Mark Mikel. Kelsey Mikel, 16, was in a terrible car wreck 10 years ago in Wakarusa, Indiana. Kelsey was declared … |
Danger of “Presumed Consent” Organ Donation – National Review Online (blog)
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Danger of “Presumed Consent” Organ Donation
National Review Online (blog) I am not prejudging this case, but I bring it up here because I think it illustrates the danger and loss of trust that a “presumed consent” organ donation scheme would engender in people. (Current law requires us to “opt-in” as an organ donor–as I have. |
Brooklyn Girl in Organ Donation Dispute Is Taken Off Life Support – New York Times
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Brooklyn Girl in Organ Donation Dispute Is Taken Off Life Support
New York Times But New York organ-donation guidelines require family agreement in cases where the potential donor is not a registered organ donor. If there is not family agreement, a donation does not take place, said Julia E. Rivera, a spokeswoman for the New York … Thaiya Spruill-Smith’s organs will NOT be donated despite mother’s wishesDaily Mail Brooklyn girl, 2, dies after taken off life supportNew York Daily News NEW YORK — A brain-dead 2-year-old Brooklyn girl’s organs will not be donated.Minneapolis Star Tribune Fox News all 89 news articles » |
‘Bubble Boy’ Disease Cured With Stem Cells – TIME
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‘Bubble Boy’ Disease Cured With Stem Cells
TIME Alysia Padilla-Vacarro and daughter Evangelina on the day of her gene therapy treatment. Evangelina, now two years old, has had her immune system restored and lives a healthy and normal life. Courtesy of UCLA … |
Donors can be champions at November, December blood drives – Sidney Daily News (subscription)
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Donors can be champions at November, December blood drives
Sidney Daily News (subscription) SIDNEY — As college football coaches like to say, “November is when championships are made!” Community Blood Center (CBC) is encouraging donors to be a champion for helping save lives with the “Buckeye Blood Donor” T-shirt. It’s free to everyone who … |
Joining the Smallest Club in America – Huffington Post
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Joining the Smallest Club in America
Huffington Post In the summer of 2013, my wife and I attended an event hosted by “Renewal” — a kidney donation awareness (and matching) organization. One of the recipients at the event was a close friend of Jamie’s who had been on dialysis and now looked like she had … |
Lujn meets the donors It’s all in the family BIPAC celebrates election results … – Politico
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Lujn meets the donors It’s all in the family BIPAC celebrates election results …
Politico The watchdog group — which Republicans regularly accuse of being a liberal group in disguise — recommends barring PACs from hiring senators’ family members; requiring lobbyists to reveal if they’re related to a member of Congress; and barring the … |
As AIDS epidemic abates, UNAIDS makes new push to end it – Science AAAS
Science AAASAs AIDS epidemic abates, UNAIDS makes new push to end itScience AAASSome 35 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2013, 2.1 million new infections occurred during that year, and AIDS-related deaths totaled 1.5 million. These w…
Carson Palmer’s lasting connection – ESPN
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Carson Palmer’s lasting connection
ESPN In the past decade, the use of musculoskeletal allografts — transplanting pristine replacement parts recovered from deceased human donors to repair the ravaged knees, shoulders, elbows and spines of athletes and millions of others — has quietly … |