Facebook organ-donation option gives 'an immediate spike' to California …Contra Costa TimesFacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the organ donor update to Facebook on "Good Morning America" Tuesday, allowing people to m…
GMS Biotech Awarded $105K NHLBI Grant to Validate HLA Typing Platform for … – GenomeWeb
GMS Biotech Awarded $105K NHLBI Grant to Validate HLA Typing Platform for …GenomeWebGMS believes the project could demonstrate the potential of its technology for use in routine newborn genotyping as well as HLA typing of umbilical cord blood for tra…
Facebook promotes organ donation – Columbus Dispatch
Facebook promotes organ donationColumbus DispatchThere, you can add the year you became an organ donor or find registration information. Robin Petersen-Webster, transplant coordinator at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, praised the fe…
Dick Teresi: The Undead – Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City PaperDick Teresi: The UndeadBaltimore City PaperBut as medical technology improved, the nascent concept of brain death complicated matters: Suddenly, there was the possibility that inside a seemingly inert body, a conscious being could l…
Saving Lives by Sharing Facebook Status – KARK
Saving Lives by Sharing Facebook StatusKARKOf the 25000 people who die of a brain death each year (and could donate organs), only 5500 donate. Audrey Brown, Director of Public Education at ARORA, hopes this moment strikes a chord with the more than hal…
After daughter's gift, mom works to grow organ donor network – KHOU
After daughter's gift, mom works to grow organ donor networkKHOU"That's what organ donation is." Volunteers from the Southwest Transplant Alliance, who had all been organ or tissue donation recipients, answered a phone bank Monday aft…
Thoratec Reports First Quarter 2012 Results – MarketWatch (press release)
Thoratec Reports First Quarter 2012 ResultsMarketWatch (press release)These initial results were presented at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation by Dr. Ulrich Jorde from Columbia University. The DT post-approval study includes…
Zuckerberg Says Girlfriend, Steve Jobs Inspired Facebook Organ Donor Tool – WebProNews
Toronto StarZuckerberg Says Girlfriend, Steve Jobs Inspired Facebook Organ Donor ToolWebProNewsIt was hailed by physicians like Dr. Andrew Cameron, surgical director of liver transplantation at Johns Hopkins, who said the tool had the potential to dras…
Saving lives: Facebook calls on members to flag organ donor status – Economic Times
NDTVSaving lives: Facebook calls on members to flag organ donor statusEconomic Times"We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends, and we think that can be a big…
Scott & White Memorial Hospital – Temple Heart Transplant Program Earns CMS Recognition
TEMPLE, Texas, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The heart transplant program at Scott & White Memorial Hospital – Temple reached a major milestone recently when it received certification from the Center for …