Canada’s hottest musical export Justin Bieber and New England Patriot all star quarterback Tom Brady made headlines last week when both issued a public plea for a person needing a life-saving organ transplant.  The unusual pairing’s public requests to their fans to join a donor registry generated headlines from coast to coast. It began with [Sign in to read the full article...]

Thousands more senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for getting a transplant and could get them if physicians would get past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists.  Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center estimate that between 1999 and 20006, roughly 9,000 adults over age 65 would have been “excellent” [Sign in to read the full article...]

Applying the use of web-based paperless screening of potential kidney donors resulted in a flood of new applications at two US transplant centers.  Using web sites to process the information takes only a few minutes for the would be donors to confidently answer such questions such as if they have hypertension, diabetes, hepatitis or whether [Sign in to read the full article...]

A national non-profit organization working to end the “organ donor crisis” in the US, is sponsoring an online poll to see if citizens would be willing to donate a kidney, living or deceased, if they would receive $50,000 to do so.  The FAIR Foundation, a national non-profit organization working to reverse the current donor shortage [Sign in to read the full article...]

The Gift of Life Donor Program, the organ procurement organization (OPO) serving eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, announced it coordinated the recovery of 1,185 organs from a record 441 individuals in 2011, a national record.  In addition, the OPO said an 2,700 individuals were also tissue donors, which helped provide life-enhancing procedures for [Sign in to read the full article...]