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• Do unto others… the debate of Organ Donation

  
  A Typical Atypical — Authority: 494
  (I don’t know why Organ Donation deserves capitals in the title – sorry!) Organ Donation Card As people who follow my Twitter feed or know me on Facebook may have noticed, I have been thinking about organ donation this week. They are currently doing a mas push on it using television ads, and it triggered me ...
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• National Donor Sabbath: Organs not Alms

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Religion , Health Care , Culture Christianity has the sacred text about not hiding a light under a bushel. But the basic idea is in pretty much every religion: You have a good idea, you have some obligation to let people know about it. Which is why Im puzzled about one particular good idea Ive ...
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• Stellar Award nominee Christopher Page promotes organ donation

  
  Gospel Soundcheck — Authority: 516
  Gospel artist Christopher Page was nominated for a 2010 Stellar Award for "Contemporary Group/Duo of the Year" for his release, A Page From My Heart, recorded with his group, The Dream Keepers Ensemble. The album includes the popular song, "Sanctified...
  2 days ago

• Spotlight: DKMSs Celebrity Supporters

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 592
  Connecting bone marrow and stem cell donors with patients in need. With assistance from donors and patients, family and friends, DKMS has become the largest donor center in the world. Celebrity supporters DKMS has 7 known supporters, including Rihanna , Jennifer Lopez , and Cindy Crawford Areas of work ...
  3 days ago

• xkcd: Organ Donation

  
  Caffeinated Joe — Authority: 493
  Hemant @ The Friendly Atheist posted this panel from xkcd : I like it. We can all make a difference when we are gone. I wont need my parts, so why not let them go back in the bin for others to use? :)
  3 days ago

• NHS Organ Transplant – TV commercial

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
  Click here to see it on AdPharm AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
  4 days ago

• Family of teen whose heart went to 68-year-old: ‘That’s the coolest’

  
  Healthy Living — Authority: 420
  People who have received an organ transplant are bestowed a gift they can never repay. But the guy who got 19-year-old David Chambers’ heart really lucked out. That unnamed recipient, somewhere in Southern California, is 68, and he received his new heart after Chambers died in a motorcycle crash in March 2008. ...
  4 days ago

• Means-testing for organ donor fund?

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 555
  The following is a letter by Leong Sze Hian to the Today newspaper. It was published on 10 November here. I REFER to media reports about the NKF organ donor fund. I would like to applaud the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) for setting up the fund to help kidney donors. Details of the means-testing criteria to ...
  4 days ago

• Road Rash

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  A 31 page .pdf report on the statistical relationship between motorcycle helmet laws and the availability of organs for donation. Here’s the short version: Q: What do you call a motorcycle rider who refuses to wear a helmet? A: A future organ donor!
  6 days ago

• Organ Donation - Feedback Friday

  
  Hope Studios — Authority: 512
  A lovely new friend has shared with me her feelings about organ donation, and how it helped so much after her son died, to know that his organs were helping other children live. She feels so strongly, in fact, that she began the Kristopher King Foundation in her sons memory to educate the rest of us about this ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Ban on Selling Bone Marrow Unconstitutional?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  I’ve written a fair amount about organ transplantation in the past (for example, here and here). But it was only in reading SuperFreakonomics that I learned that “the Iranian government [pays] people to give up a kidney, roughly $1,200, with an additional sum paid by the kidney recipient.” The book also tells ...
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• Is the Ban on Selling Bone Marrow Unconstitutional?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 750
  Ive written a fair amount about organ transplantation in the past (for example, here and here). But it was only in reading SuperFreakonomics that I learned that "the Iranian government [pays] people to give up a kidney, roughly $1,200, with an additional sum paid by the kidney recipient." The book also tells the story ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Ban on Selling Bone Marrow Unconstitutional?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  I’ve written a fair amount about organ transplantation in the past (for example, here and here). But it was only in reading SuperFreakonomics that I learned that “the Iranian government [pays] people to give up a kidney, roughly $1,200, with an additional sum paid by the kidney recipient.” The book also tells ...
  1 week ago

• Rabbis: Organ donation is murder

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  According to Jewish religious laws, as interpreted by the ultra-Orthodox Badatz, brain death or brain stem death are not defined as death, and that removing a person from life support is murder. Kobi Nahshoni ynetnews.com Jewish World Following a Ynet report on the Chief Rabbinates decision to recognize ...
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• NHS launches organ donation ad

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Television campaign highlights fact that three people die each day due to shortage of donors The NHS is launching its first national television campaign to promote organ donation, highlighting the fact that three people who are in need of a transplant die each day due to a shortage of donors. Breaking on TV ...
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• Dead: Two in the Cockpit, Four in the Cabin and One Far Away

  
  Cockpit Conversation — Authority: 495
  This accident investigation tells a sad tale. Its not just the story of an airplane that had some kind of problem after takeoff. The crew consisted of a results- (as opposed to safety-) oriented maverick chief pilot and what the NTSB terms an "ill-prepared" first officer. They explain that term only in stating that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene therapy could make more lungs available for transplants

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 681
  A new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more lungs available for transplanting, Canadian researchers said today. Currently, only about 15% of potential donor lungs are actually used because the rest are too damaged to implant. The new technique, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Repairing Injured Lungs May Boost Organ Donations

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of gene therapy for injured lungs that were previously rejected for transplantation may increase the number of lungs available for transplant, researchers say. read more
  2 weeks ago

• As the Gay World Turns…

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  Anyone else ecstatic that its Friday? Im in such a joyous mood. Not only because its the end of the week, but also because of some important milestones achieved this week in the LGBT community, both here in Ohio and around the U.S. Among the highlights: Legislation has recently been passed in Ohio that allows ...
  3 weeks ago

• Donate Your Organs by iPhone

  
  Economix — Authority: 734
  After an economist suggested that signing up to be an organ donor should be as easy as downloading an app to your iPhone, an inspired developer created just such as app.
  3 weeks ago

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