Calgarians Jeanne Keith-Ferris and Don Ferris have donated $250,000 to the Centre for Digestive Motility, the health centre announced Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are seeking to relax blood donation rules for some people who initially tested positive for hepatitis B, which could clear hundred of thousands of new ...
... Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country.
... information in the article. Some data suggest that complications from donations are highest among young donors.
Anne F ... bruising) occurred after 10.7 percent of donations by 16- and 17-year-olds, 8. ...
... an additional $50 million (Canadian) to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). This private donation increases his personal contributions to $150 million in the research institute.
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The authors note that the findings also indicate that increased utilization of kidneys donated after cardiac death has the potential not only to reduce the organ shortage but also to mitigate the ...
Ontario's New Democrats are renewing calls for a presumed-consent law to govern organ donation in the province.
... been given to the participants. After people became "friends" in the study, they were more likely to donate money to a friend who lost money.
The authors note that participants' sympathy did not ...
... Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad announced Thursday that they are donating $400 million, their biggest gift ever, to a Massachusetts biomedical research institute that is a joint ...
BOSTON (AP) -- Sixteen athletes, including six former NFL players, have agreed to donate their brains to a program that will study the long-term effects of concussions, a founder of an ...
Obstacles include piles of paperwork, choosing the type of medical research, getting the consent of egg and sperm donors or simply finding an organization that will accept the donation. ...
... by this system of recipient/donor matching, specifically, that the pursuit of living kidney donation may be based less on information relevant to transplant outcome and more on the persuasiveness of ...
... to give them a kidney. As a result, some are now turning to websites that attempt to match people in need of transplantation with those who want to donate a kidney, so-called "Good Samaritan" donors.
There is a global demand for donated blood. In Canada, supplies have fallen to dangerously low levels and officials are appealing for more donors.
... a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees and alumnus of the Class of 1960, has donated a gift that will help to establish a new center at the Institute devoted to bio-energy ...
