Sentences with phrase «number of organ donors»

In real life, the number of organ donors simply doesn't meet the need.

But our ability to help people who need transplants is limited by the number of organ donors that come forward.

They also debunk myths about organ donations, and talk about efforts to increase the number of organ donors in New York state.

Under the current opt - in system the ability of the organ donation service to help people is limited by the number of organ donors that come forward, resulting in 500 deaths last year.

Arthur R. Lillicrop III, of the pastoral counseling center at the Washington Hospital Center (which hosted the conference), told participants that the gap between the number of organ donors and the number of potential recipients is ripe for redress by Christians.

Not exact matches

Dr David W. Evans, cardiologist, formerly of the Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, is one of a number of medical professionals who doubt that all organ donors diagnosed «brain dead» are actually brain dead at all.

Several political options are being considered to increase the number of donor organs.

Senator David Carlucci said, «Lauren's Law has significantly helped increase the number of registered organ donors in our state, which means thousands waiting on donor lists may get a vital organ sooner.

The Executive Order directed the Department of Health to work with the Transplant Council, Donate Life New York State, health care providers, and hospital systems licensed to provide organ transplant services in order to develop opportunities to increase the number of registered organ donors in the state.

«I commend Governor Cuomo for taking these important steps today to complement the Senate's ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and direct resources to increase the number of life - saving organ donors in the state.

Cuomo is starring in a public service ad intended to boost the number of registered organ donors in New York.

New York state currently has the second lowest number of registered organ donors in the country, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a release.

He says he hopes the campaign will increase the number of organ and tissue donors in the county by 30 percent.

In honor of National «Donate Life» month Erie County has launched a year - long campaign to increase the number of organ and tissue donors in New York State.

Parents also recognized major benefits of having their child registered as an organ donor, including having their preferences known in advance (51 percent), having an opportunity for their child to help other children (70 percent), and increasing the number of child - sized organs for transplant (67 percent).

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.

«This is critical because the number of available deceased organ donors has been stagnant, but the demand has dramatically increased.

Their work has been avidly followed by biologists in the field of organ transplantation: If a donor's heart or kidney could be frozen and stored without damage, physicians could dramatically increase the number of transplants they perform.

New research shows wide variation in the number of eligible organ donors whose loved ones consent to organ donation across the country.

The success with kidney transplant patients is particularly noteworthy given the number of very ill people who come to the medical center with a high probability of rejecting a donor organ because of high amounts of antibodies in their blood.

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.

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.

«One challenge to increasing the number of living organ liver transplants is donor ambivalence,» explains lead researchers Dr. Li - Chueh Weng with the School of Nursing, College of Medicine at Chang Gung University and Dr. Wei - Chen Lee with the Transplant Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.

He also wants to expand the use of new technology such as normothermic perfusion that can rejuvenate donor organs by circulating warm, oxygenated solution through them prior to transplantation, improving their viability and greatly increasing the number of available donor organs.