Monthly Archives: June 2012

transplant, put them in touch with Florida Hospital/Orlando. Friday night, June 15th. my wife and I had gone to dinner with friends.  En route home, since we were leaving very early Saturday morning to attend a meeting in New York … Continue reading →

By Methodist Hospital, Houston Newswise — In the past, a patient 55 or older had little or no chance of receiving a life-saving kidney transplant. But improvements in medicine have many doctors re-evaluating older patients who need a new organ. … Continue reading →

by Joseph Shapiro / Shots At Misty Cargill’s funeral, the minister called her an advocate for other people with intellectual disabilities. She was — although a reluctant one. Cargill became an advocate when NPR did a story about her fight … Continue reading →

By Shari Rudavsky / IndyStar.com @Calsjohn needs a new kidney. @jcnewton13, a close friend, offered his. This week, the two will undergo a donor kidney transplant at @IU_Health. The procedure itself isn’t unusual. Indiana University Health transplant surgeons perform about … Continue reading →

Hudson Reporter BAYONNE ABND BEYOND (NJ) — Francis Anderson worked two full-time jobs for 35 years as a history and religious education teacher by day, at Marist High School in Bayonne, and a freight agent for American Airlines by night. … Continue reading →

by Hannah Costigan / Meridian Stuart Vince and colleague Phil Jackson were also trying to get hundreds of people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register as part of the Big Donor Challenge. Last year, Stuart Vince donated his kidney … Continue reading →

Philly.com There wasn’t room in today’s column about kidney patient Aretha Swift to list all of the outdoor advertising companies that donated 24 billboards to her cause – a total worth of $260,000. For that kind of generosity, I think … Continue reading →

By Wayne Coffe / NY Daily News After a combined nine hours of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Monday, the most important transaction of former Met GM Jim Duquette’s life was complete —and his right kidney was … Continue reading →

By Byron Rohrig / The Courier & Press The large disparity between need and availability of transplant organs is borne out in the national numbers. More than 73,000 [actually more than 110,000] people need an organ transplant now and have … Continue reading →

By Remington Whitcomb / The Post-Journal While some may claim we live in a dog-eat-dog world, it’s important to never underestimate the kindness of strangers. Mitch Stone had lived his entire adult life knowing that slowly but surely, his fuse … Continue reading →