Napanee, Kingston events mark 'BeADonor Month' in push to close organ donor gap (Kingston, Ontario) A Napanee man who survived a near-fatal heart attack and years of serious illness is now using his experience to urge others to register as organ donors.

#ICYMI
During April, the #Transplant Advocate Association will host information booths, attend community events & work with municipalities in #KFLA to promote #BeADonor Month, highlighting the need for more registered #OrganDonors.
#Kingston #Napanee
Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/napanee...

Napanee, Kingston events mark 'BeADonor Month' in push to close organ donor gap (Kingston, Ontario) A Napanee man who survived a near-fatal heart attack and years of serious illness is now using his experience to urge others to register as organ donors.

During April, the #Transplant Advocate Association will host information booths, attend community events & work with municipalities in #KFLA to promote #BeADonor Month, highlighting the need for more registered #OrganDonors.
#Kingston #Napanee
Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/napanee...

We Are Sharing Hope SC to Host Inaugural “Pickleball for Hope” Fundraising Tournament Registration is now open for We Are Sharing Hope SC’s (SHSC), Pickleball for Hope fundraising tournament.

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#charleston #chsnews #lowcountry #southcarolina
#organrecovery #organdonors #organtransplants #nonprofit #chsevents
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Why some people are wired to help strangers, and what their brains reveal One striking finding is altruistic kidney donors tend to have a larger amygdala, a part of the brain critical to processing emotions.

These "extraordinary altruists" tend to have a larger-than-average amygdala, the part of the brain critical for processing emotions.

#Neuroscience #OrganDonors #Altruism

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Our Better Nature: Great Unexpectations | The Saturday Evening Post From zebra cows to snow flea sex, scientists often research topics that initially appear silly, but ultimately prove quite useful.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Many things don't turn out we wanted, but sometimes it saves lives.
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#hexapod #inverts #physics #malaria #diabetes #organdonors #writers #science #nature

Essay: Let's stop pretending human beings are dead when they are clearly alive - Sight Magazine CHARLES C CAMOSY says three recent New York Times articles on organ donation point to the insufficiency of current definitions...

Essay: Let’s stop pretending human beings are dead when they are clearly alive. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #sanctityoflife #humanlife #definitionsofdeath #organdonors #transplants

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@johnokillens.bsky.social Thanks for the follow! Any fan of what Shane Cleveland did to save Nate Robinson’s life is super cool with me.

#Imagine 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻
#OrganDonors
#PNWNative 🫶🏾🌲
#SeattleSuperSonics Super Fan Forever 🏀

#incompetence #corruptadministration #organdonors

Family objections holding back organ donations despite 400,000 pledges, says health minister KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — Objections from organ donors’ next of kin remain one of the main challenges for organ donation in the country, where over 10,000 patients are still on...

Family objections holding back organ donations despite 400,000 pledges, says health minister #aseanhealthministers039meeting2026 #datukseridrdzulkeflyahmad #kidneytransplants #melaka #nationaltransplantcentre #organdonation #organdonationmalaysia #organdonors

a woman wearing glasses and hoop earrings is sitting at a table making a funny face . ALT: a woman wearing glasses and hoop earrings is sitting at a table making a funny face .

Heard an interesting hot take from someone I know who received a #kidneytransplant after being on a wait list for years. Was there an uptick in #organdonors due to covid? Did the supply of organs increase because of people who passed away due to covid or #covid related illness? 🤔😳😬

Block party seeks to increase organ transplant access for communities of color More than 100,000 people are waiting for an organ donation, and organizers of a block party outside Howard University Hospital Sunday are hoping to break down health care barriers for people of color....

Kudos to everyone who took part in a block party this weekend outside Howard University Hospital to increase organ transplants for communities of color! www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/... #organdonors

Surgeons transform boy’s life with donor heart transplant: talker.pub/4kQJNuj

#healthnews #goodnews #hearttransplant #organdonors

This reconciliation bill creates a devastating one-two punch for #kidney patients by threatening both #Medicaid coverage AND triggering massive #Medicare cuts. #KidneyTransplants #OrganDonors

#FlagDay
#DonateLife
What an amazing group of people ,
what an amazing place to
make the miracles of Transplant possible
Become an organ donor
Thank you
#organdonors

#OrganDonors

خصوصی افراد کو وہیل چیئر کے 'لوگو' کے ساتھ تاحیات معیاد کے منفرد شناختی کارڈ فراہم کیے جائیں گے
مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30437502/

#AajNews #Nadra #OrganDonors #identitycard

Heroes without capes. Two teachers saved my daughter's life in a paired kidney exchange 5 yrs ago today. We later learned two additional teachers were donors in that same kidney chain. Several lives were saved.
www.kidneyregistry.org
@kappy13.bsky.social
#Teachers #OrganDonors #GiftOfLife

Had a great time hanging at the Rose Parade
Got to watch the #CoreKidney float pass me by
So proud of Dr. Rastogi and others who have made this such a success
Thank you #OrganDonors
#RoseParade
#Pasadena

…was responsible for the drug cyclosporine, that made organ transplants and longer term survival possible.

By the 1980’s heart transplants had an 80% survival rate.
#Norway #Fungus #OrganDonors

Scientists use magnetic nanotech to safely rewarm frozen tissues for transplant - American Chemical Society Researchers report in ACS’ Nano Letters their efforts to facilitate completely freezing, rather than cooling and then thawing, potentially life-saving organs for transplant.

Another fun little piece I wrote for the American Chemical Society’s newsroom

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#transplantation #nanotech #nanoparticles #organdonors #scicomms #sciencewriting

Remembering #organdonors.
Forever grateful to them and their families ❤️❤️❤️

What’s your favourite case/type of anaesthetic to give?

Mine is #transplant. Those folk waiting for organs who get that call. Then there they are in front of you about to have a life changing experience. Gets me EVERY time.

Thank you so much #organdonors #organdonation

💙💚Happy #NationalDonorDay2023 from the @ApolloNetwork13🙌🏾
• Observed on February 14th, #NationalDonorDay helps share awareness➕education about organ, eye & tissue donation
• Please join in honoring #OrganDonors who make lifesaving #transplants possible💙💚

Grateful to join #DonorFamilies, #LivingDonors, #transplant recipients, professionals➕our #StLouis community🙌🏾at Oct 2022 @midamtransplant #CelebrateLife5K👟
• 🌺Beautiful day☀️honoring generosity of #OrganDonors & transformative impact of the #GiftOfLife🦋
• @SSMHealthSTL🏃‍♀️💙

Grateful to join #DonorFamilies, #LivingDonors, #transplant recipients, professionals➕our #StLouis community🙌🏾at Oct 2022 @midamtransplant #CelebrateLife5K👟
• 🌺Beautiful day☀️honoring generosity of #OrganDonors & transformative impact of the #GiftOfLife🦋
• @SSMHealthSTL🏃‍♀️💙

Honoring #DonorRemembranceDay 2020 in our #StLouis community. 🙏🏻Humbled by generosity of #OrganDonors & their families in sharing #GiftOfLife w/ patients in need. Forget-me-not flowers🌼symbolize their ongoing legacy. @SLUHospital @midamtransplant @AOPOHQ @DonateLifeMO @UNOSNews

Honoring #DonorRemembranceDay 2020 in our #StLouis community. 🙏🏻Humbled by generosity of #OrganDonors & their families in sharing #GiftOfLife w/ patients in need. Forget-me-not flowers🌼symbolize their ongoing legacy. @SLUHospital @midamtransplant @AOPOHQ @DonateLifeMO @UNOSNews

Honored to talk w/ @FOX2now's @DanGrayTV on #StLouis #MedicalMinute about current local & national initiatives to protect #financial💵 rights of living #OrganDonors – including #LivingDonor #ProtectionAct & @HRSAgov proposal to expand reimbursement of donation-related expenses.

Honored to talk w/ @FOX2now's @DanGrayTV on #StLouis #MedicalMinute about current local & national initiatives to protect #financial💵 rights of living #OrganDonors – including #LivingDonor #ProtectionAct & @HRSAgov proposal to expand reimbursement of donation-related expenses.

Honored to testify w/@kathdavisr & #StLouis #NKF board member at #MOHouse Hearing on #LivingDonor #ProtectionAct’. 👏🏽 #MORepresentative Eggleston for sponsoring bill to prohibit #insurance discrimination against donors. Encouraging progress to protect #OrganDonors! @SLUHospital