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Baby Joe Mesi?s Fight for Organ Donation Foundation
2008-09-04 09:16:00 The Buffalo Bean received a tip that a charity founded by State Senate Candidate Baby Joe Mesi amounted to a "war kids relief" problem, invoking the short-lived non-scandal that befell Jon Powers for about two days. Specifically, the allegation is that Mesi's charity only gave out $13,500 in grants ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Organ Donation: The Ultimate Recycling
2008-04-30 06:42:00 "I am so sorry for your loss. I need to ask, did your mom/husband/child ever discuss organ donation with you?"This question makes me feel like the worst nurse ever. Since moving to OB, thankfully it isn't a question I need to ask anymore. Yet after working 13 years on Acute Care it is a question I'm familiar with. Until that point I've done everything in my power to either preserve that life, or at least to help death be a calm, pain free transition. In asking that question now, I'm not only acknowledging that there is nothing left to be done, but I'm asking permission to allow a doctor to harvest organs from their mother, spouse, or child.In my job, this is the portion of organ donation I dealt with. Personally though, I've experienced the other end of organ donation. The waiting, the constant presence of the beeper, and the hope. The hope that a grieving family will, in their grief and heartache, will make the choice to donate the organs of their loved one. Signing...
Organ Donation: A Crisis Among Minorities
2008-04-13 21:33:00 Jennifer Wider graduated from Princeton University in 1994 with B.A. in the humanities. She received her medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1999. During medical school, she interned at a CBS local news affiliate and 20/20 in New York City. Jennifer worked as a senior editor at Medscape/CBS HealthWatch out of medical school. She has had many publications in newspapers, magazines and websites across the country and has been a guest on CBS News, National Public Radio and various cable channels. Jennifer was formerly the managing editor of the health channel at iVillage.com and currently reports on health and medical issues for the Society for Women's Health Research. As well, she is co-author of The Savvy Woman Patient.Jennifer Wider--The number of people needing organ transplants is rising faster than the number of donors, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Roughly 77 people receive organ transplants per day...
By: BasilandSpice
[Sad] Canada has one of the worst organ donation rates in the world, mostly
2008-04-07 19:58:00 Canada.com
Knesset approves organ donation law in Israel
2008-04-06 12:18:00 Knesset approves organ donation lawJerusalem Post, Israel - Mar 25, 2008A few weeks ago, ...
By: Israel-Times.com
ORGAN donation issue LETS HAVE OUR SAY ....
2008-04-05 16:31:00 ..oRGAN DONATION ....IS A VERY IMP ETHICAL CONCERN REGARDIN HUMAN SURVIVAL ...... read more
By: BuzzVines
Vote: Should the UK enter into a system of presumed consent for organ donat
2008-01-13 14:01:00 Gordon Brown is said to be considering a system of "presumed consent" in which everyone is a potential donor unless they opt out. Mr Brown said:"A system of this kind seems to have the potential to close the aching gap between the potential benefits of transplant surgery in the UK and the limits imposed by our current system of consent." Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, chair of All-Party Kidney Group and member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee said:"Under an opt-out scheme donor's real wishes will be more often respected, more lives would be saved and grieving relatives will be spared the experience of making the wrong decision at the worst time." However, Joyce Robins from Patient Concern is not so optimistic, saying that presumed consent turned volunteers into conscripts:"Presumed consent is no consent at all. We've worked for years to get a system of proper, informed consent in the health service in this country and Gordon Brown is willing to throw it all out of the window."Healt...
By: Daily Referendum
Organ Donation Pin
2007-10-11 01:16:00 Get a free organ donation pin from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Organ donation: what do the fundamentalists say?
2007-10-09 16:34:00 Is organ donation a ‘Christian Duty?’ The Anglican church in England thinks so. Body parts should not be mistaken for the person themselves, and the best way to treat them reverently is to use them to heal others, said the Church which would welcome the creation of a European donor pool. “Giving oneself and one’s possessions voluntarily ...
By: Carson's Post
New Zeal for Organ Donation Raises Fears
2007-09-13 05:37:00 After a long fight with a degenerative disease, Ruben Navarro appeared close to death. So the hospital caring for him alerted the local transplant network, which rushed a team to the medical center to try to salvage the 25-year-old's organs.
By: Get rich
BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign
2007-07-18 21:50:00 Today I am blogging for a good cause: organ donation. Motorcycling and organ donation are two things that almost seem to go hand in hand. I was an organ donor way before I learned how to ride a motorcycle, however I feel that with taking up a seemingly selfish (and often dangerous) pastime I owe it ...
Organ Donation Awareness Campaign
2007-07-18 10:53:00 Organ donation talk is a bit off topic on a sushi website, but sushiordeath.com would like to be a part of the world wide blogger campaign for organ donor awareness. Are you an organ donor? How about your family? Do you know if they want to be organ donors? Have you talked about it? Talk ...
raising organ donation awareness
2007-07-18 08:00:00 BlogCatalog requested that this Wednesday (today) we write about the importance of organ donation. The subject of life saving measures has been weighing recently on my mind and I'll admit I'm in the dark when it comes to organ donation in a foreign county. So here's what I've learned: In 1997, Germany passed a transplant law that officially assigned the Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (DSO) the role of coordinating the organ donation procedure and organ procurement. Yet, the number of people actually declaring themselves as organ donors is still rather low in Germany. According to a 2001 study, 82% of Germans polled are in favor of organ donation and 67% are willing to donate their organs after death. But less than 15 percent of Germans actually document this on a donor card. If no written declaration such as a donor card is available, the next of kin will be asked about the deceased's known or presumed will. This may be the last burden a grieving relative can even thin...
World Wide Blogger Social Campaign to Raise Awareness about Organ Donation
2007-07-18 06:32:00 I’m joining hundreds of bloggers around the world on today to educate the world about organ donation. I’ll admit that I am not as educated as I could be about the topic, but my driver’s license does indeed state that I am an organ donor! I know there’s plenty of reasons that people have for ...
By: Ugly Mailbox.com
The LDS Church & Organ Donation / Transplants
2007-07-18 05:31:00 I was recently asked what the church's position on organ donation was and, since I'd never really thought about it, I decided to do some research and find out. My initial impression was that it was a personal choice. Most things in the LDS Church are. I was right. In the February 1988 Ensign, this topic was featured in the "I Have a Question" section. Cecil O. Samuelson, the current BYU
BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign
2007-07-18 04:36:00 I was just thrilled when I heard that BlogCatalog wanted us all to blog about Organ Donation today! My son, Gus, was waiting for a liver/small bowel but died this past May. His little body could hold out no longer. I know that when we discuss organ donation, we are discussing the donation of adult organs. No one wants to even consider the fact that children die and can be organ donors too. I know I never wanted to think about so I didn't. I felt that if I even thought in the direction, that I was saying I would be ok if my child died. I know that sounds strange but I just didn't want to jinx things. I know now that organ donation is something that should be discussed before you are in a stressful situation and unable to make a decision. Talking about donating organs is not going to kill you or your child. There are so many children out there who are waiting for these organs. Gus was at the top of the national list for three months....I just have a hard time believing th...
By: Up the Hill Gang
BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign
2007-07-17 10:10:00 I believe my life here in temporal. My body is only a vessel and my soul is intact when I die. I am for organ donation.In support of the awareness campaign organized by Blog Catalog I would like to highlight some sites like United Network for Organ Sharing and Matching Donors if you live in the US or British Organ Donor Society for worldwide links.If you have never considered organ donation, give it some thought today. I have.
By: Wahseh!
Don?t forget to blog about organ donation on July 18
2007-07-17 08:07:00 BlogCatalog is currently promoting Blog For A Good Cause that will occur this Wednesday, July 18. On Wednesday I will blog about organ donation, and I am hoping that others will join in if they do not plan to already. This is an opportunity for bloggers to help raise awareness about this important issue, and ...
BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign
2007-07-16 23:20:00 BlogCatalog has started a campaign for organ donation. When I was informed about this, I felt a strong need to contribute for a cause that I believe on completely.The best of organ donation is that when you die, you don't do it completely, but you can make something of your person continues living in another one.In some way, it's like being a hero, because your life will guarantee that others continue living.The existence of sick people whose organs are damaged is very painful. For example, people that have kidney trouble have to spend hours connected to a machine that cleans their blood. Or people who suffer from heart disease, whose existence seems to slip away each minute waiting for a phone call that may change their lives.When we talk about children the things get worse. There is nothing as terrible as a child suffering. Innocent creatures that, instead of enjoying their childhood, they are trapped in a bed, without being able to do what the other children do: play, jump, ru...
Thursday Thirteen #5: Organ Donation
2007-06-07 04:28:00 I recently heard about organ donation in the news and wanted to pipe in for this cause.A Dutch television network said that it would broadcast a "reality" show featuring three patients competing for a kidney to be donated by a terminally ill woman, but it turned out to be a hoax to promote awareness of organ donation and the lack of organ donors. It did encourage tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands to sign up.In the United States, the waiting list for organ donation is nearly 97,000 people. Many will die without receiving one. That is one death every 90 minutes.Organs that can be donated include: the heart, intestines, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas, skin, bone and bone marrow, cornea. Once removed from a body, a kidney has a 72-hour window before it needs to be transplanted into a patient.Organ donations from dead donors far outweigh donations by living ones. Organs that can be donated from living donors include the lung, partial liver or pancreas and the kidney.A ...
By: mommy bytes
Thursday Thirteen #5: Organ Donation
2007-06-07 04:28:00 I recently heard about organ donation in the news and wanted to pipe in for this cause.A Dutch television network said that it would broadcast a "reality" show featuring three patients competing for a kidney to be donated by a terminally ill woman, but it turned out to be a hoax to promote awareness of organ donation and the lack of organ donors. It did encourage tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands to sign up.In the United States, the waiting list for organ donation is nearly 97,000 people. Many will die without receiving one. That is one death every 90 minutes.Organs that can be donated include: the heart, intestines, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas, skin, bone and bone marrow, cornea. Once removed from a body, a kidney has a 72-hour window before it needs to be transplanted into a patient.Organ donations from dead donors far outweigh donations by living ones. Organs that can be donated from living donors include the lung, partial liver or pancreas and the kidney.A ...
By: mommy bytes
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