Sentences with phrase «of donated organs»

«The number of patients needing organ transplants has skyrocketed in recent years while the number of donated organs grew only slightly.

An average of 21 people die each day in the United States waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs.

Several studies published in the BJS (British Journal of Surgery) address these issues and offer ways to maximize the use of donated organs.

Being able to engineer organs using a patient's own cells can not only alleviate this shortage, but also address issues related to rejection of donated organs.

Every year, thousands of people die due to lack of donated organs.

While Germans are in favor of donating their organs in principle, few have made the move to do so, frustrating government officials who are trying to get the organ donation figures up.

As with other types of transplantation, the challenge with islet transplantation is to avoid rejection of the donated organ and to balance that goal against side effects from the drugs needed to control the immune system.

Provided translation to assist the medical team with discussing critical issues about end of life, life support and the process of donating organs in accordance with faith and cultural norms.

Not exact matches

Germans have a lot of reasons why they don't want to donate organs, according to a 2010 survey published by the Federal Center for Health Education.

Some 62 percent of those surveyed said they did not want to make a decision now on donating organs; one - third of respondants said they don't want to deal with topics related to death; and another third said they are worried that if they agree to donate, and then become critically ill, doctors won't do everything they can to save them.

If you believe the government can force a woman to donate the use of her internal organs to sustain the life of a fetus, then why can't the government force anyone to donate the use their internal organs to sustain the life of someone requiring a transplant?

This summer, Americans were shocked to learn that Planned Parenthood had been engaged in activities that, whether you call it «selling» or «donating and being reimbursed for the costs of transport,» whether you call the sources «unborn children» or «fetuses,» undeniably involved exchanging organs and money.

Some states have, in addition, passed laws requiring medical personnel to ask the family of the deceased to donate his or her organs.

Nevertheless, this system of giving and receiving has not provided as many donated organs as are desired for transplant purposes.

The Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark, told Premier: «The Catholic Church is clear that, in itself, it is a good and meritorious thing freely to donate our organs after we are dead.

In total, eight of her organs were donated - her heart, small bowel, pancreas, both kidneys, both lungs, and her liver was split and transplanted into two people.

Regarding transplants, John Paul II says donating organs is a «particularly praiseworthy» gesture when «performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope.»

Cuomo announced a new executive order directing state agencies to work to make it easier to enroll on the state's Donate Life Registry, the list of organ donors.

I encourage all motorists that come into any of the Erie County Auto Bureau offices to enroll in the Donate Life Registry by adding the «Organ Donor» designation to your Driver's license or ID by completing an MV - 44 and simply signing the «New York State Organ and Tissue Donation» consent box on any license or non-driver ID application.

I will continue to stress the importance of becoming a donor, because donating an organ is saving a life.

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.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips commented, «The «soft system» of presumed consent which is being proposed in Wales accommodates the wishes of individuals and their family members who do not want to donate organs, while at the same time the opt - out system has the potential to profoundly benefit society as whole if it increases the availability of organs.

Under the current opt - in system, individuals must actively choose to join the organ donor register, whereas with a soft opt - out system organ donation is the default position, but relatives are asked if they are aware of any unregistered objection to the individual donating their organs.

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.

The move is designed to have the state Department of Health work with the Transplant Council and the New York Alliance for Donation, as well as health providers and hospitals, to develop ways of increasing the number of people registered to donate organs.

«The family wants to re-emphasise that our son died of heapatocellula carninogen and at no time donate any organ to anyone.

We strongly support change to a system of «presumed consent» for organ donation and most of us would not object to our body parts and organs being donated and used for good ends.»

Sen. Jose Peralta today will announce a bill that would require a range of applications, including for public colleges, professional licenses, state - funded health insurance programs, and state income tax returns, to include a registration line for the «donate life registry» for organ, eye, and tissue donations

The British Medical Association advocated for a «soft» system of «presumed consent» and under the proposed legislation, deceased individuals will be presumed to have consented to donating their organs on their death, unless they have expressed an objection during their lifetime.

In recognition of National Donate Life Month, Legislator Joseph Lorigo will be hosting an open - to - the - public blood drive with Unyts, WNY's only organ, eye, tissue and community blood center, on Monday, April 15th from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Southgate Plaza Neighborhood Blood Donation Center, 1000 Union Road, parking lot F.

Efforts by the state and nonprofit organizations to boost the number of New Yorkers registered to donate their organs are paying off.

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.

If the procedure works in humans, it would enable donated livers from humans, and possibly even from pigs, to be re-coated with a patient's own cells, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection.

By passively cooling deceased organ donor body temperature by approximately two degrees from normal body temperature, researchers saw an overall nearly 40 percent increase in the successful function of donated kidneys after surgery.

But, according to Donate Life America, while 95 percent of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54 percent are actual registered donors.

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.

After a year of recovery, Hardison says he is ready to meet the family of his donor, David Rodebaugh, to thank them for their decision to donate his face, as well as other organs to other recipients.

«Publication of data from prisoners is ethically inappropriate given that it [is] not possible to ensure that the prisoners freely agreed either to donate their organs, or to be included [in] a research program,» she tells ScienceInsider.

The proposal to change the allocation system would broaden sharing of donated livers to a 150 - nautical mile radius around the donor hospital, regardless of which organ region a potential recipient lives in.

«The vast majority of organs are donated by the recipients» family members,» explains Macis.

Throughout the month of April, in celebration of National Donate Life Month, The Johns Hopkins Hospital will fly the Donate Life flag to show solidarity for the importance of organ donation.

The most potent of these, known as effector memory T cells, are activated by a group of proteins known as human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) on the surface of endothelial cells lining the donated organ's blood vessels.

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Physicians at the University of Chicago were the first in the U.S. to transplant a segment of an adult liver into a small child (1986), to divide one donated organ between two recipients (1988), and to use living donors for liver transplants.

The number of organs donated as a result of overdose death has increased 24-fold since 2000 and transplants with those organs have similar outcomes to transplants with organs donated after trauma or natural death.

In the case of the eight patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds from the hormone harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.

I am an organ donor after seeing the difference it made when 2 of my aunts who passed away from cancer donated their organs to help others.

Taylor's parents chose to help keep the spirit of their daughter alive by donating her organs to those who needed them.

Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives by harvesting human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot.