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...example, when the brother of Cristina M. Weiner '02 died, her family donated his whole body--tissues, organs and fluids. So far they have helped over 80 people, leading her to think of organ donation as "a miraculous event that can do a lot of good...
Another of the founders, Sandra L. Nudelman '03, told how her grandfather had successfully received an organ transplant, but only after being on the waiting list for a year and a half. Doctors had given him three months to live...
...pamphlet distributed at last night's meeting, YODA told attendees that nine people die every day waiting to receive an organ transplant. Right now, there are 67,340 people waiting for transplants. Last year organ donors numbered only 10,073, half of whom were living donors...
...ways that YODA plans to address these problems is to provide comprehensive information for the Harvard community on issues associated with organ donation...
...perhaps their most immediate goals is to get more Harvard students to sign organ donor cards and to make more people aware of the possibility of donating bone marrow...