14Jul/14

LETTER: Organ donation bill essential – The Sentinel

LETTER: Organ donation bill essential
The Sentinel
For example, during testimony in support of the bill at a hearing in May, Philadelphia Chief Medical Examiner Sam Gulino testified that he was “unaware of any case in which permitting organ donation has hampered the preservation of evidence

14Jul/14

Families urged to discuss organ donation – Hinckley Times


Hinckley Times

Families urged to discuss organ donation
Hinckley Times
Doctor Hilary Jones, who often appears on breakfast television, is backing the campaign alongside a number of famous faces. He said: “More people are willing to be an organ donor than are actually signed up. But signing up AND telling your relatives of

13Jul/14

‘Become an organ donor,’ urges doctor – Buckingham Advertiser


ChronicleLive

‘Become an organ donor,’ urges doctor
Buckingham Advertiser
A doctor who was the recipient of a heart transplant is encouraging people to become organ donors during National Transplant week writes Layth Yousif. Dr Snehasish Guha was a practicing anaesthetist involved in an organ retrieval of a young patient who …
Top doctor: Lack of heart donors is putting more lives like Tiarna’s at riskChronicleLive
Spell out your donation decisionEastwood Advertiser
Transplant Games Show True Athletic SpiritMemphis Daily News
Mansfield Chad –CW39 NewsFix –CBS Local
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13Jul/14

‘I am alive because somebody decided to be an organ donor, a hero, my hero’ – thejournal.ie


IrishCentral

‘I am alive because somebody decided to be an organ donor, a hero, my hero’
thejournal.ie
FAMILIES ACROSS THE country who lost a member of their family have come together in a music video to highlight organ donation. The song ‘Unintentional Hero’ was written by Pa Curran after the death of his friend Taidhg Burke Neff. The video shows …
‘Unintentional Hero’ commemorates late organ donors beautifully (VIDEO)IrishCentral

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13Jul/14

Mum’s plea over organ donation for little Jude – Portsmouth News


Portsmouth News

Mum’s plea over organ donation for little Jude
Portsmouth News
His parents Kellie, 36, and dad Darby, 42, are backing the campaign for people to join the Organ Donor Register and to make their families aware of their wishes. Kellie, who is also mum to Morgan,14, Casey, 12 and Oscar, six, said: ‘A transplant won’t

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11Jul/14

MSP calls for opt-in organ donation system ahead of consultation – stv.tv

Scottish Daily RecordMSP calls for opt-in organ donation system ahead of consultationstv.tvA Labour MSP is calling for an opt-out system of organ donation in Scotland. Anne McTaggart said that the change, meaning everyone would be assumed to be an orga…

11Jul/14

Why every one of us should register as an organ donor – Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk

Why every one of us should register as an organ donor
Telegraph.co.uk
If only we could flip our mindset and see organ donation as giving to the living rather than taking from the dead. I’m all for a tick-the-box normalization of the whole process; I’d like to make it mandatory, so agonizing over the pros and cons or
Mum finds man with her son’s heart following organ donationParentdish

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11Jul/14

Organ donor backs opt-out plans – Scottish Daily Record


Scottish Daily Record

Organ donor backs opt-out plans
Scottish Daily Record
A pensioner who gave one of his kidneys to a complete stranger has welcomed plans for a radical re-think in organ donation. Seventy-year-old Rod Morgan described proposals making their way through the Scottish Parliament as “an awful lot of sense”.
An organ-donor saved my husband’s lifeGet Bucks
Organ donation: ‘For some families, it’s not an easy decision’Gazettextra
Parents of organ donor honor daughterToledo Blade
Eastbourne Herald –Channel Television –Lancashire Telegraph
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10Jul/14

Final chance to take part in Shropshire Organ Donation survey – shropshirelive.com (press release)


shropshirelive.com (press release)

Final chance to take part in Shropshire Organ Donation survey
shropshirelive.com (press release)
The Shropshire Organ Donation survey aims to find out what people in the county think about the organ donation policy: are they in favour of an ‘opt-in’ or an ‘opt-out’ policy? So far around 1000 people have taken part in the survey. The survey which