World News - Archived News Article Links
- Donor
Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body
- New
article in the FASEB Journal shows two-way exchange of molecules
between donor and recipient
- CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war
- AST
Employee Leave & Organ Donation Program ( a great set of resources
for taking action!)
- Study
Shows Steroid Therapies Following Transplant Can Be Eliminated
- President Bush Signs The Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Congressional Gift Of Life Medal Act Into Law
- Total artificial heart to be ready by 2011: research team
- Heart transplant baby Kaylee celebrates 21st
- Response to Presidential debate question: Call for
Sacrifice simple: give blood, bone marrow, donate organs and tissues
(Blog post)
- Study Shows Liver recipients at higher cancer risk
- 10/7/08: UNOS Reports Listed Patients Top 100,000 (that's
patients LISTED,
not registrations which would include patients who have listed
with multiple centers - those
numbers change every minute - to see the real-time numbers go to UNOS.ORG)
- UT group uses computers, economics to make transplant more effective
- The Doctors Who Are Redefining Life and Death
- Hundreds Race to Support Organ Donation
- 3
Top Surgeons on Short List for UPMC Transplant Chief
(Dr. Thomas Starzl replacement story) - A super
devotion
to caring
(Top nurse also helped start survivor program, donates time)
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