Pre-Application Technical Assistance Workshop for Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation Program and Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation grant programs. December 8, 10 am to 4 pm, Dallas, TX. Register by e-mail to charris@hrmgroup.net or phone 703-234-1762.
www.organdonor.gov/ www.organdonor.gov/
Be an Organ and Tissue Donor; Help Create a Donation Friendly America!; Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people. Giving the "Gift of Life" may lighten the grief of the donor's own family.
www.organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm www.organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm
Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation into another. Experts say that the organs from one donor can save or help as many as 50 people. Organs you can donate include...
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organdonation.html www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organdonation.html
Organ donation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting. Organs and tissues are removed in procedu...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation
There are unique organ donation and transplantation issues that affect minorities.; Learn more ... Organ and tissue transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives and return them to their families, friends and communities. You have the power to change someone's world by being a donor.
www.donatelife.net/ www.donatelife.net/
News results for Organ Donation
Hospitals honored for organ donations · Chattanooga Times Free Press · 22 hours ago
Many in need of organ donations · Canon City Daily Record · 31 hours ago
news.ask.com ·  More news articles »
An estimated 10,000 to 14,000 people who die each year meet the criteria for organ donation, but less than half of that number become actual organ donors. ... If the OPO determines that organ and/or tissue donation is appropriate in a particular case, they will have a representative contact the deceased patient’s family...
www.house.gov/mcdermott/kidneycaucus/25facts.html
The Gift of a Lifetime is an educational documentary about organ donation, tissue donation and organ transplants in the United States. ... The Gift of a Lifetime: Organ Donation in America...
www.organtransplants.org/ www.organtransplants.org/
; Organ Donation; Each year thousands of Americans could benefit from a heart transplant. But only 2,192 heart transplants were done in the United States in 2006. ... What should families know about organ donation?
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4697