Why April is an Important Month to Save a Life

Why April is an Important Month to Save a Life Today’s health news concerns a very important health issue: organ donation. The month of April is National Donate Life Month—so it’s a perfect time to consider your thoughts on this matter. Have you made a decision to...

Why would the church interfere with organ donations?

Consent by default It seems to me that if people were given the right to decide in this matter, the majority would opt to become organ donors. In such matters, people won’t go out of their way. That is why in...

Organ donor change shelved

Gordon Brown has shelved plans to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation in the UK despite announcing earlier that he was in favour of trying out the scheme. He has however kept the door open to revisit the...

German Man Receives World's First Double Arm Transplant

A German man received the world's first complete double arm transplant and is adjusting well to his new arms, although it could take as long as two years before he gains functionality in his hands.  The nerves are predicted to grow down the arm at a daily rate of 1mm,...

Web organ donor a first in Canada

 ""In his desperate search for a kidney donor, Ken Fogelman turned to an unlikely place — the Internet.  When the 54-year-old Toronto civil servant found Jenny Oad, 31, a single medical technician from East York, willing to give him one of hers, it began a year...

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