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Organs and statistics
Jerusalem :: Israel | 4 months ago
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Transplant surgery [illustrative photo] Photo: Keith Bedford / Reuters Statistics can be as misleading as they can be enlightening. A critical eye and pertinent questions are required to pierce the veil of numbers that sometimes blurs our vision. The
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Regina woman recalls emotional meeting with organ donor's family
Edmonton :: Canada | 9 months ago
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Rarely do families of organ donors and recipients learn the identity of each other, but fate intervened in Craven's case. After her transplants, she bought her donor family an angel and wrote them a letter of thanks. Craven purchased a duplicate to
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Unlike giving blood, becoming an organ donor easy
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 months ago
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Bob is wondering if the blood donation rules, which we covered in "Less-than-fluent foreigners may have trouble giving blood" (April 3), also apply to organ donors. "I am carrying, and have for years, a donor card to donate my organs in case of my
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Organ donor cards enable 3 to jump to head of line
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 year ago
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Courtesy ADI Three people who signed organ donation cards in recent months were the first to receive precedence as organ recipients in an arrangement ADI-The National Transplant Center, designed last year to encourage donor registration. The three
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Modern Orthodox organ-donor campaign slammed
Jerusalem :: Israel | over 1 year ago
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A voluntary organization of strict modern-Orthodox Israeli Jews is sending representatives to synagogues, hesder yeshivot and women's seminaries to register donors for a Bilvavi organ-donor card even though it has been called unnecessary, wasteful
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Rabbis urge religious public to volunteer as organ donors
Jerusalem :: Israel | over 1 year ago
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A new initiative designed to raise the number of people signing up for organ donation cards has been formally approved by Tzohar, the religious- Zionist rabbinical group. In a meeting last week at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, 40 rabbis
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When life depends on the kindest cut
Madrid :: Spain | 2 years ago
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Story continues below Claudia Castillo, centre, who received a windpipe transplant that used tissue grown from her own stem cells, with her children. Photo: AP/Hospital Clinic of Barcelona And it was Spanish surgeons who performed the first
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Spain's family bonds lie at the heart and soul of great healthcare
Madrid :: Spain | 2 years ago
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Looking tired, Adolfo Martinez Perez, dressed in a white clinical coat, apologises for being late, saying he has been to see a judge...The surgeon and his fellow transplant co-ordinator, nurse Mercedes Gonzalez Gonzalez (her mother and father had the
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Britain’s Orthodox Jews in organ donor card row
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Britain's Orthodox Jews have been plunged into the centre of an angry debate over medical ethics after the Chief Rabbi ruled that Jews should not carry organ donor cards in their current form. London's Beth Din, which is headed by Lord Jonathan Sacks
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Response: Organ donor cards are not incompatible with Jewish law
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Organ donor cards are not incompatible with Jewish law There is only a problem when the duties to honour life and to save life are in conflict You reported that I have issued an edict that " organ donation and the carrying of donor cards are
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