| GPA Employees Donate to Haiti Relief |
| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:47:00 GMT |
the devastating earthquake in Haiti, GPA Specialty Substrate Solutions employees generously pulled together to make a $5,000 donation. All employee contributions were matched by GPA as part of the companyescape_start39;s ongoing philanthropic focus. read more...
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| Live Kidney Donation Considered Safe for Donor |
| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT |
TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Live kidney donation does not impact the long-term survival of the donor and can be considered safe, although certain groups are at higher risk of death shortly after surgery, according to research published read more...
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| Kidney donors have similar survival rates as healthy individuals, says study |
| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:59:00 GMT |
community to quantify these risks as best as possible and to make this information available to those considering donation," the authors write. More than 6,000 healthy U.S. individuals every year undergo nephrectomy for the purposes of live donation; read more...
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| Kidney donors live longer, study reveals |
| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:35:00 GMT |
helps allocate organs. In 2008, there were 5,968 living-donor kidney transplants. Several small studies have suggested that donation is safe, however the low rate of risk has made accurate estimates difficult. To surmount that problem, Segev and his read more...
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| Sudan receives Chinese donation |
| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:00 GMT |
A batch of medical goods, equal in value to 110,000 U.S. dollars, donated by China Fundation for Poverty Alleviation is handed over to Sudanese Al-Birr & Al-Tawasul Organization on Tuesday at the Chinese Embassy in Khartoum. read more...
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