Rio Grande Valley hospitals are now taking part in a movement to honor patients who have agreed to give up their organs. The honor walk brings together the doctors, nurses and the patient’s family for a walk through the hospital hallways. At the end of the walk, those organs are removed from the body to …
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Week-long storage boosts time organs are usable and distances over which they can be moved Human livers from organ donors can now be preserved for a week, researchers have revealed, a dramatic improvement on previous techniques, which could only keep the organs usable for a matter of hours. The technology could boost the number of …
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Every day, Americans are dying because of an inefficient organ donation system. That reality is as tragic as it is fixable, and cemented a seemingly unlikely friendship between us as two former White House staffers who served two very different presidents. It might seem like there are not many points of policy agreement between the …
It’s time to provide needed reform to the organ donation system Read More »