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Bill to benefit live organ donors advances in Knesset
Jerusalem :: Israel | 11 months ago
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Thinkstock A private member's bill that would give priority for receiving transplant organs to those who donated one of their own (kidneys or liver lobes) to others, including relatives, was approved Monday by the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health
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'Exchanges' urged to ease organ shortage
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 12 months ago
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A severe shortage of human organs for transplant means thousands die in the U.S. each year while on a waiting list...Of those, 73,041 were "active" they were on that day needful of a transplant and cleared to receive one because they had been
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Donor day designed to ease organ shortage
Dresden :: Germany | 12 months ago
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Saturday is Organ Spending Day in Germany and donor groups are hoping that an information programme in Dresden will encourage people to become organ donors. Only one in five people in Germany have agreed to donate their organs after their death,
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The beauty of donation
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 12 months ago
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Abdullah Al Alami Thursday 24 May 2012 A couple of years ago, a group of thirty six highly motivated and concerned Saudis, led by businessman Abdul Aziz Alturki, set up a society to raise awareness about organ donation. Many in the Arab world and in
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Police bust suspected organ trafficking ring
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 year ago
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Thinkstock/Imagebank Police on Tuesday arrested ten people on suspicion of human and organ trafficking. According to suspicions, the ring of traffickers ran a network of organ trafficking and smuggling, matching donors with those who require urgent
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The Lifesaving(?) Technology of Facebook
Madrid :: Spain | 1 year ago
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On May 1, Facebook launched an initiative to encourage users to become organ donors, and within 24 hours there had been a spike in the number of people volunteering their body parts for the good of others. California's registry saw almost two months'
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Transplant system to go national
Shanghai :: China | over 1 year ago
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China's organ donation system will be extended nationwide starting this year, said Huang Jiefu, deputy minister of health, on Thursday. Currently, the trial system launched by the ministry and the Red Cross Society of China in 2009 is operating in 16
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Doctors' radical plan to tackle organ shortage
Exeter :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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A BMA report has revived the debate about how far doctors should go to help save the lives of patients with organ failure. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Patients could be kept alive solely so they can become organ donors, hearts could
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Many needing transplant die for lack of donated organ
Evansville :: IN :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Evansville time a week ago today, the private, nonprofit contractor managing the nation's organ transplant system reported: 112,757 people were on U.S. organ transplant waiting lists; 72,420 of those were active candidates. Members of the latter
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Caixin Online: Slim harvest for organ transplants in China
Beijing :: China | over 1 year ago
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A court-mandated slowdown for prisoner executions has been blamed for worsening China's critical shortage of human organs for transplant candidates. But a lack of criminal cadavers is just one of many reasons why health officials say about 1.5
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