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Over 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases each year, but only 20 percent of registered donors are minorities, according to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP...
Here are some grim, preventable statistics: Last year, 5,700 Americans died waiting for organ transplants, and right now more than 80,000 people are praying for word that a life-saving donor has been located. It?s not that there aren?t enough organs out there to go around - it?s simply that available organs are not being earmarked for donation. They?re being buried or cremated instead...
...Organ donation can be a squeamish topic even for doctors, says Dr. Brody. Current law actually allows the harvesting of organs from people carrying donor cards, even over familial objections. It?s just that very few doctors have the stomach to override the wishes of a grieving family. (The HHS committee also suggested allowing organs to be harvested unless families actively prohibit...
...evidence mounts against prominent Harvard donor A. Alfred Taubman, on trial for price-fixing as chair and director of Sotheby’s auction house, the University must decide what impact the case will have on the Harvard institution named after him, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Kennedy School of Government...
...this and other reasons, the drive to know as much about donors as possible will continue, as will the drive by sperm banks to refine the donor population. Most recently, Xytex has begun to require that donors be at least 5 ft. 8 in. Explains David Towles: "Tall--along with college educated, sensitive, nice--tends to sell well...