Erik Compton helping Donate Life America raise organ donation awareness 
WorldGolf.com
"Play Through" aims to raise public awareness of organ donation and urge Americans to consider becoming organ donors. "Last year, Donate Life America achieved a significant milestone when the 100 millionth American registered to become an organ donor," ...
Let's dispel some myths about organ donation The Durango Herald

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Camp lessons save a life through organ donation 
NECN
(AP) ? Lessons two young women learned at a youth camp didn't just bring them together ? those lessons helped save a life through organ donation. Rachel Summerlin, 22, and Jasmin Williams, 23, are both graduates of and staff at the Tennessee Teen ...

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Organ transplants change local's life 
Community Advocate
By Mary Pritchard, Contributing Writer Shrewsbury ? Having received two organ transplants in four years ? a kidney from his sister and a pancreas from another donor ? Matt Westerlind doesn't take his dramatically improved health for granted.

 

Jordan- Prince Hamzah Hospital to perform two kidney transplants per week 
MENAFN.COM
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Kidney transplant surgeries at Prince Hamzah Hospital will be increased from one operation per week to two, officials said on Sunday. Prince Hamzah Hospital Director Ali Hiasat said the decision will be implemented starting this ...

 

A Kidney Transplant Saves 22-Month Old Baby Rose 
WFMY News 2
Winston- Salem, NC-- We hear about organ donor stories all the time, and we know it gives so many a second chance at life. But it's not every day that we hear about a 22-month old baby girl as the recipient. News 2's Liz Crawford talked with a Triad ...

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Son's organ donation saves his mother's life in Pueblo 
Denver Post
Patients waiting for a transplant are assigned a score called the Model for End-stage Liver Disease; it includes measurement of bilirubin, a product of hemoglobin breakdown in the liver, and kidney and liver function. The higher the MELD score, ...

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Organ donation slow due to taboos, myths 
The Borneo Post
KUCHING: Taboos and myths on death are among reasons that contribute to the very low number of people donating their organs in the country. National transplant coordinator from National Transplant Resource Centre (NTRC), Datin Dr Lela Yasmin Mansor ...
Gifts of life from the departed Malaysia Star

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Blind leap of faith: Kidney, pancreas transplant survivor to rappel off ... 
Carroll County Times
When kidney disease progresses, it may lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant. What they are: Anyone can get chronic kidney disease at any age. Some are more likely than others to develop the disease, including those ...

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In death, she gave life to three others 
Daily News & Analysis
But in this case, Goenka's son Sanjay came forward to donate his mother's organs after he came to know that she was brain dead. ?This was even before doctors could counsel him about the possibility of organ donation,? said Dr Maharshi Desai, ...

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Competition to perform organ transplants is heating up in South Florida 
MiamiHerald.com
Four South Florida hospitals have started the process to get approval for transplant programs to compete against Jackson Memorial's 40-year-old program. By John Dorschner Jackson Memorial's organ transplant program, a premiere service for four decades ...

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