Why Donate Organs

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NacTel (North Atlantic Communications), a leading provider of enterprise telecommunications and data systems has successfully installed and integrated a new critical communications system for the New York Organ Donor Network, the nation's second largest nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organization. The system they installed is ShoreTel, the provider of a simple Unified Communication (UC...  

MIKE Phillips knows all about the emotional rollercoaster that is life on the organ transplant waiting list - and he is backing a new charity campaign to boost the donor register.  

A story in the Telegraph-Journal last week highlighted a problem for 83 New Brunswickers and thousands of other Canadians, a problem most of us rarely think about: the problem of the need for donated organs being much greater than organ donations.  

A total of 35 successful organ transplants were performed by Bulgarian doctors in 2009. The organs came from 11 donors, according to a Saturday’s announcement of the Bulgarian Health Ministry. The Ministry has announced that last organ donor of ...  

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Death Row inmate Christian Longo has launched a Web site to campaign to become an organ donor. A Corrections Department spokeswoman, Jennifer Black, says it considers organ donations on a case-by-case basis. One case was a bone marrow transplant for a prisoner's relative.Black told The Statesman Journal officials don't want prisoners selling their organs. Longo is facing the death penalty for killing his wife and three...  

One of the two teenage victims of a traffic accident on the Mriehel Bypass in 2005 had spoken about being an organ donor just days before the accident. 13-year-old Graziella Fenech told her family she wanted to get an organ donor card now...  

Kathy Griffis, Director of the Titus Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit, told members of the Titus Regional Medical Center Hospital Board Monday that 20 people die every day waiting for a transplant. She said that almost 95,000 patients are on the national waiting list for organ transplants - of which more than 7,000 are from Texas, and that a new patient is added to the national waiting list every 15 minutes.  

By Diane Chun Staff writer University of Florida physicians at the Shands at UF medical center are closely monitoring a transplant patient after an organ donor in Mississippi was posthumously diagnosed with a rare infection.  

| In his brief 14 years, Michael Gerard Miller thrived on helping others, whether buying pop and candy for friends or showing new snowboarders how to make it down the slopes. So the youth would be proud that he’s one of 76 organ donors to be honored on a float in the Rose Parade in Pasadena this New Year’s Day.  

The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan encourages Michigan residents to give the gift of life this holiday season by signing up to become an organ donor. As many as 50 people may be helped when just one person decides to donate his or her organs or tissue after they die. Right now, nearly 3,000 Michiganians wait for a life-saving organ transplant. Nationally, more than 100,000 people are waiting for an organ. While they wait, 18 people die...  

The number of people approved as living organ donors has topped 3,000, the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has announced. Since 2006 there have been 2,978 kidney approvals, 81 liver approvals and two for lung transplants. Related StoriesNew treatment could aid sufferers of rare cancerCancer patients 'can't afford to stay warm'  

Deadly blood diseases kill more than 1,000 Americans every year, many of whom could be saved by finding matching bone marrow donors. The human body regenerates bone marrow—donors are whole again in just a few weeks after donation—so why are so many lives lost for lack of marrow? The answer lies in the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which prohibits the compensation of bone marrow donors and stymies a market response to the demand...  

I take Anthony Dick to be gently suggesting that I haven't made a full-dress argument for the view that striking down the federal ban on compensating bone-marrow donors would be an act of judicial activism. He's right. My points were narrower. The first is that we can't jump from the idea that allowing compensation would be a good policy to the conclusion that the Constitution compels it. The second is that most conservatives are going to be...  

OTTAWA -- Despite an increase in organ donations over the past decade, Canadians are still dying as they wait for transplants, a new study shows. While the number of organ donors has risen by more th...  

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION OTTAWA -- Despite an increase in organ donations over the past decade, Canadians are still dying as they wait for transplants, a new study shows.