Sentences with phrase «organ donation saves»

Organ donation saves lives.

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An organ donation campaigner and transplant recipient has paid tribute to a teenage girl who broke a UK record by saving eight lives through organ donation.

Lauren's Law was originally signed by Governor Cuomo in October 2012, and was named for Lauren Shields, a Rockland County resident who received a life - saving heart transplant at age 9 and became an advocate for organ donation.

To learn more about saving lives through organ, eye, tissue and blood donation, please feel free to contact unyts at [phone] or visit www.unyts.org or the New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD) at www.alliancefordonatdonation, please feel free to contact unyts at [phone] or visit www.unyts.org or the New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD) at www.alliancefordonatDonation (NYAD) at www.alliancefordonation.org.

The bill notes one organ donor can help save the lives of up to eight people on the donation waiting list and can improve the lives of up to 50 people by restoring eyesight, treating burn patients and helping patients avoid disabilities by replacing malfunctioning, diseased or damaged organs and tissue.

Their commitment is to save and enhance lives through organ, eye, tissue and blood donation, while maintaining respect for those who give the gift of life.

From October 2 through October 5, the North Tonawanda Common Council, spearheaded by: - Aldermen - at - Large Jeff Glatz and Bob Pecoraro, Along with partnership from: - the North Tonawanda High School led by Katie Harrington, and - Unyts Account Executive Greg Eastmer are promoting a North Tonawanda «Roll Up Your Sleeves» Challenge to all the residents of North Tonawanda to accomplish two things: - Blood Donations - Member Donor Registry These individuals understand the needs of the community and what a blood or organ donation can do to save or improve a life and desire all residents to support this challenge.

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

Improving the success rate of organ donation could potentially save many lives.

«If more people designate donation on their driver's licenses, or if more people talk about the decision to be an organ donor with their families and loved ones, or if more people decided to selflessly participate in living donation, we would be able to save some many more lives with through transplantation.»

-LSB-...] Should a person commit suicide if, via organ donation, they can save and significantly extend the lives of four other people?

As registered donors, both Wilson and Clauson saved five lives each through organ donations.

In this campaign, there are stories of authors who have promoted organ donation and saved countless lives, helped raise awareness of domestic sex slavery, even helped changed laws.

Our team has extensive experience in field of «serious medical treatment», having recently acted in cases concerning Obstetric / gynaecological treatment for women with mental health difficulties; Withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from a person in a permanent vegetative state or a minimally conscious state; Organ or bone marrow donation by a person who lacks capacity to consent; Non-therapeutic sterilisation of a person who lacks capacity to consent and Life - saving but invasive surgical treatment.

Dr Tony Calland, chairman of the BMA's Medical Ethics Committee, said the BMA believed that moving to a system of presumed consent, where it is assumed that people are willing to donate their organs after death unless they opt out would play an important part in improving the organ donation system so that more lives can be saved.

«Organ donation is very important and could help save lives by just one donation,» said Heather McCravey, a Medical Assistant student, after participating in Meredith's presentation.