Nov. 3—It's not like asking your friendly neighbor for a cup of sugar. It's asking someone — be it a relative, friend or even a stranger — to become a living donor. To give up a part of their body to ...

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UW Health has launched a new Living Donor Initiative aimed at expanding living organ donation by improving patient support, ...

The saying, “not all heroes wear capes” is so true when it comes to people who contribute and give back to their community. Whether it’s a teacher who inspires students to be their best, a kid who ...

Read full article: Young business owner offers a royal experience to kids in need When we apply for a driver’s license or renewal, the question about becoming an organ donor comes up. Sadly, only 1-2% ...

You may be unaware that organs from a living donor can be transplanted into another person’s body. In fact, about 7,000 living donor organ transplants were performed last year out of about 48,000 ...

UW Health is working to encourage more living organ donations in the state, officials said Thursday.The new Living Donor ...

Molly Gray, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, and Dan Napoleon, of Trenton, New Jersey, participated in an organ donation paired exchange at Penn Medicine's Transplant Institute in March 2022. Gray donated a ...

Editor’s Note: Sigrid Fry-Revere is a medical ethicist with a focus on patients’ rights. She wrote the initial draft of the 1990 Patient Self-Determination Act and started the first non-profit to ...

India is among a small group of countries where living organ donations far exceed deceased donations, despite relatively high ...

Larry Mantle talks with two experts in the field of living organ donor transplantation, Dr. Robert Mendez, Professor of Urology and Surgery at USC School of Medicine and President of National ...