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Witnessing the power of donation firsthand has inspired many of our family members to register as organ donors as well. My son saved four lives through organ donation. Each April we honor his life ...
In the U.S. last year, doctors performed more than 42,800 organ transplants. But there are still over 100,000 people waiting for lifesaving donations.
Nicholas Green's organ donation legacy lives on 30 years later. ... the latest chapter in a phenomenon the media long ago dubbed “the Nicholas effect,” a chain of events that has both saved ...
The main purpose [of this proposal] is to increase the supply of transplantable organs in order to save or improve more lives." [215] Encouraging more people in palliative care to become donors. Researcher suggests that 46% of patients in palliative care are eligible, but only 4% are approached to consider eye donation. [216] [217]
Two lives saved would be completely cured, or be sufficiently cured as to show a quality of two lives greater than a healthy life killed to save them. Two lives saved would be able to live long enough on the transplanted organs (staving off rejection and the original sickness causing their need for replacement) as to show a quantitative gain ...
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established (42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
One organ and tissue donor can save up to eight lives and heal more than 75 lives. Organ failure affects people of all ages, races, and backgrounds, and it is often related to common conditions ...
George Lopez had a kidney transplant.. This list of notable organ transplant donors and recipients includes people who were the first to undergo certain organ transplant procedures or were people who made significant contributions to their chosen field and who have either donated or received an organ transplant at some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information.