Run miles for hope  Berea MailThe Sunflower Fund in KZN is appealing to runners to consider participating in the 2019 Miles4Hope fundraising and awareness campaign.

Using Guilt: Donors Wary of High-Emotion Appeals  The Chronicle of PhilanthropyResearchers found that videos featuring disturbing images of starving children tended to make viewers suspicious of an organization. A softer approach yielded …

All About Whole-Body Donations  Next AvenueOn the March afternoon when her wife Sandy Swanson died of cancer, Liz Mattern knew who to call. A few hours later, two technicians arrived to remove About …

Giving Life – The state of organ donation in China  CGTN

Every year, around 300,000 people with terminal illnesses require an organ transplant in China, but only some 20,000 operations can be performed. Despite the …

California’s canine blood banks harvest from caged dogs and operate in secrecy  Los Angeles Times

California requires that dogs used as blood donors be held in closed colonies. Sweeping exemptions mean the public knows little about the facilities.

Guidelines proposed for newly defined Alzheimer’s-like brain disorder  National Institute on AgingA recently recognized brain disorder called Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy, or LATE, mimics clinical features of Alzheimer…

UK’s first hand transplant patient tells his story as part of Leeds organ donor exhibition  Yorkshire PostA man who received the UK’s first ever hand transplant and went on to use the new limb to save his wife’s life is part of a new exhibiti…

NJ Firefighters Commit to Saving Lives Through Organ Donation  TAPinto.netPATERSON, NJ – More than a dozen Paterson firefighters stood shoulder to shoulder on Monday in an effort to save lives.

Should we publicly fund IVF in Canada?  Policy OptionsIn-vitro fertilization (IVF) has come a long way since the birth of the first test-tube baby in England in 1978. IVF is a procedure in which eggs are removed from a …