... live just another few minutes. Their families had said goodbye, and wanted their newborns to become organ donors, in hopes of saving another tiny ...
LONDON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- British Health Secretary Alan Johnson said Monday he supports an organ donor task force recommendation against an opt-out system for organ donation.
China inaugurated its first voluntary organ-donor program, hoping to overhaul a system that now gets most of its organs from the black-market and executed convicts.
... . (AP) -- An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical ...
Drivers applying for new licences in Britain will have to choose whether or not to become organ donors under a program aimed at increasing the number of people registered.
... should be the first one where people become organ donors by default, even though other states' efforts have been halted by worries about making such a personal decision ...
Improvements are needed in the screening of organ donors to protect transplant patients from hepatitis B and C, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
A report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics suggests that the NHS should pay for the funerals of organ donors to boost the number of organs available for transplant operations. Do you agree?
... urgent need to increase the number of organ donors from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in countries with a strong tradition of immigration, such as the UK ...
... who were waiting to get a driver's license a short video about the impact of organ donation increased the number of organ donors by more than 10 percent, and the increase was especially dramatic among ...
Two young friends in Halifax have forged an even stronger bond after their lives were saved by the same organ donor recently.
The number of people signing up to become organ donors jumped on the day Facebook began allowing users to post their organ donor status in their profile.
... oligonucleotide probes – that is normally used to screen ribonucleic acid (RNA) samples from transplant recipients and organ donors with alcohol-related heart failure ...
New York City has received a grant to deploy a “rapid organ-recovery ambulance” to collect and preserve the organs of people who die of cardiac arrest.
... findings from nPOD; the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes. Organized and funded by JDRF, the network ... , in a collaborative manner, pancreatic and related tissues from organ donors with long-standing type 1 ...
