Not exact matches
SightLife, a Seattle - based nonprofit eye bank that extracts corneas from
organ donors and distributes them to transplant centers around the world, is one
of the largest such facilities in the U.S., with 96 employees and
more than $ 14 million in annual revenue.
This practice would yield not only
more donors, but
more types
of organs as well, since the heart could now be removed from dying, not just dead, patients.
One person who donates
organs (hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines) can save up to eight lives, while a tissue or eye
donor (corneas, bone, skin, heart valves, tendons, veins, etc.) can improve
more tha 75 lives by restoring eyesight, helping fight infections in burn patients and preventing the loss
of mobility and disability.
More established scientists than Yang have dreamed
of creating animal
organs that are suitable for transplantation into people waiting for a human
donor.
For example, the Facebook
organ donor initiative elicited
more than 60 %
of its total online registrations in the first two days, after which the number
of new sign - ups decayed quickly3.
The
more you want to relax your considerations about how close a match you need with
donors, you know, you open up the field
of organs that are available for any particular patient, but you risk,
of course, obviously very, very serious indeed lethal reactions in most
of those cases.
Researchers from the Perelman School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the
organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identi
donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building
more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles
of poverty and dramatically improve the quality
of life for those in need — and Gift
of Life
Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identi
Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half
of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential
donors are evaluated and identified.
At 10 years after transplantation, the
organs from
donors with unacceptable / high risk provided each recipient with
more than 7 additional years
of survival on average.
Fourteen
of the 58
donor service areas offered 129 or fewer kidneys in 2009, so if some
organs are shared
more broadly, then the expected increase in transplants could represent the addition
of a small - to medium - sized
donor service area.
Slight changes to the system for allocating deceased -
donor kidneys could result in higher rates
of organ procurement and lead to
more kidney transplants across the country, according to new research co-authored by an Indiana University Kelley School
of Business professor.
The advance, described in next month's issue
of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to
more accurate screening
of organ donors and identification
of genetic targets for new drugs.
While there is only so much that can be done in terms
of policy and research, raising awareness around the need for
more organ donors remains paramount in the effort to save
more lives.
«While we focus on encouraging
organ donation all year, the HAP campaign gives us the opportunity to really pull together resources and manpower at our five hospitals for a coordinated campaign to educate faculty and staff, patients, and their families on the need for
more organ donors and
donor awareness,» said John Kirby, associate executive director
of Operations at the Hospital
of the University
of Pennsylvania (HUP).
As this week kicks
of Donate Life Month, we're encouraging
more people to think about donation, to talk about it with their loved ones, and to designate themselves as an
organ donor.
In
more than a third
of kidney transplantations performed in the United States, the transplanted
organs come from live
donors.
As part
of a clinical trial conducted at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Ildstad and colleagues extracted bone marrow - producing cells from kidney
donors and then removed cells likely to cause GVHD while expanding the number
of «facilitating cells» that make an
organ recipient's system
more receptive.
Of 10 patients who got kidneys from genetically mismatched
donors, which typically leads to
organ rejection
more often than matched transplants, seven successfully came off immunosuppressants.
We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level
of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number
of healthy
donor organs so that we can help
more people.
This decision is made
more difficult by the lack
of donor organs.
Having a clone would be
more like having a baby — though you might be able to talk it out
of a
donor organ or two when he or she is older.
And so again, I think that's a great advantage
of this type
of a system, and hopefully as people need
more organ donors, this will be another set
of tissues that could be used.
Somewhat ordinary - looking Genevieve Bujold — ironically in the book her character is an attractive blonde - may escape peril by clinging onto the roof
of a moving ambulance, but this makes its rather unbelievable premise
of an entire large medical facility dedicated to the
organ donor black market all the
more plausible.
A surprisingly unrelenting lecture on the dangers
of texting while driving (a phrase said way
more times than the name
of Jesus), with a secondary emphasis on why it's good to be an
organ donor.
They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director
of The Birth
of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder
of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director
of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties
of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director
of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author
of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator
of Rockin» 1000, co-founder
of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO
of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans
more affordable and returns
more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits
of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for
organ transplants and build the country's first central
organ donor registry, creating
more culturally relevant ways for people to share their
donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder
of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap
of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers
of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
; Scott Harrison, the founder
of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director
of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties
of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director
of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author
of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator
of Rockin» 1000, co-founder
of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO
of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans
more affordable and returns
more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits
of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for
organ transplants and build the country's first central
organ donor registry, creating
more culturally relevant ways for people to share their
donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder
of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap
of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers
of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
Spiraling the book even
more is the fact that the recipient
of the
organs, already unstable and unsure
of himself, is convinced that he has become part
of the female
donor, that her life is now intertwined with his.
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