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Check Your Heart Rally encourages organ donation and education
WLNS Lansing via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoHeart Rally,” which brought together donor families, recipients and those still waiting for that...
JD Supra: Diminishing the Organ Donation Wait List with Xenotransplantation
JD Supra· 5 days agoIn just the US, more than 100,000 men, women, and children are waiting for an organ transplant. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing, more than 6,000 people in the US die on...
98-year-old WWII vet believed to be oldest American organ donor ever
Military Times via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoWe see liver donations at all ages,” Lee said. About 12% of deceased organ donors in the first four...
Reauthorization Bill forces FAA to allow organs to fly in commercial cabins again
WDAF via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt gives the FAA 90 days to convene a work group to develop best practices for transporting organs...
Heart in a box allows doctors to expand organ donor pool
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 6 days agoUniversity Hospitals is finding new ways to expand the donor pool. According to doctors, there’s a serious disconnect when it comes to the number of patients in need of organ
1 in 5 people awaiting a transplant are Hispanic. Here’s what to know about organ donation
Tacoma News Tribune· 3 days agoThe number of Hispanic organ donors in the U.S. has increased in recent years, but that growth has b...
Local family meets the man who received their loved one’s heart after organ donation
WBTV Charlotte· 3 days agoA young man’s ultimate sacrifice gives life to another man looking for a second chance. Elijah Moore...
Why Does Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Really Matter? - The Baltimore Times
Baltimore Times· 6 days agoDonate Life Maryland (DLM) helps save and improve lives by registering organ, eye, and tissue donors...
Colorado's Aurora Masters, 5-year-old strangled in swing set accident, 'made this world better,'...
Fox News· 7 days agoAurora Masters, 5, will be laid to rest on Saturday, a month after the Fort Collins, Colorado, girl...
West Hartford man uses Facebook to find organ donor
WTNH-TV New Haven· 6 days agoWEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The shortage of donor organs is extreme, with 100,000 people in the U.S. desperately waiting for anorgan. Ken Ferrucci of...