Below are links to several stories about donation & transplantation in the media.
www.lsj.com Beyersdorf: This year, consider the gift of life for fellow citizens
Organ and tissue donations save thousands in state
Published December 24, 2007
From Lansing State Journal
As we celebrate the holidays, please consider making the commitment to give the gift of life. For those waiting for an organ transplant, the gift of
life provides the chance for some to see their children grow up, the chance for others to attend school, and for each transplant recipient the
opportunity to once again dream of a future.
www.mlive.com
Exemplifying hope: Rev. Carlson exceeds life expectancy of move liver transplant recipients Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By Susan Harrison Wolffis susanharrison@muskegonchronicle.com
For 20 years, he's lived on borrowed time.
On Aug. 8, 1987, the Rev. Russ Carlson -- now senior pastor at Forest Park Covenant Church in Norton Shores -- was one of the first 20 liver transplant recipients at the renowned Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Doctors gave Carlson, who was diagnosed with chronic active hepatitis, about a 60 percent chance of surviving the transplant.
www.boston.com Finding hope in donations of 'excess' skin Beverly surgeon takes lead in breakthrough for grafts
Dr. Beverly Shafer at her office in Beverly.
(Robert Spencer for the boston globe)
By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | July 26, 2007
Like an empty bag of skin. That's how Nina Esile describes the flab that protruded from her stomach to her pelvic area after four pregnancies -- including twins 13 years ago -- left her abdominal muscles severely damaged. The more Esile dieted and exercised -- she dropped 50 pounds over the past two years -- the larger her "bag of skin" became. It got to the point that the Newburyport software writer, a 44-year-old single mother of five, couldn't bear to look at herself in the mirror.
www.wzzm13.com Michigan man's gift of kidney begins string of organ donations
John Faherty, The Arizona Republic
Phoenix - A chain of small miracles started in Phoenix last week. It began when a Michigan man decided to donate one of his kidneys to a person he had never met.
www.freep.com Team takes to the sky to bring back a donated liver
By Catherine Ho
Detroit Free Press Medical Writer
July 15, 2007
A plane crash June 4 that killed the members of a University of Michigan organ transplant team stunned the medical community. Despite the risk, transplant teams continue lifesaving flights that are critical to thousands, including 905 people in Michigan who had transplants last year. Henry Ford Hospital's Transplant Institute is the second-largest transplant program in the state, next to the U-M Transplant Center. Last year, the Ford institute gave a second chance at life to at least 350 people, compared to U-M's 425.
This is the story of one such transplant and the team that made it happen.
ClickOnDetroit.com 4 Good Health: Dr. McGeorge's Life-Saving Mission (Parts I and II)
Tuesday, July 10/Wednesday, July 11
By DR. FRANK McGEORGE
WDIV-TV Detroit
In a two-part series, Dr. Frank McGeorge follows an organ donation and transplant of a liver into a recipient at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The first part focuses on the critical timing needed for success. The second part looks at the generosity displayed by the donor and his family.
Click here to see Part I of the story at clickondetroit.com.
Click here to see Part II of the story at clickondetroit.com.
DailyPress.com Teen's death brings sight to Portsmouth man
By SUSAN E. WHITE
The Virginian-Pilot
May 31, 2007
PORTSMOUTH, Va.
As a teenager, Andre Jones often practiced for the moment when he would lose his sight. He'd awaken in the early morning hours and clench his eyes shut, beckoning the darkness to remain. The exercise eased his fears.
TheNewsHerald.com Transplant recipient awarded Shining Star By Paula Evans Neuman, The News-Herald PUBLISHED: May 20, 2007
Once a year, Bill Gillespie of Gibraltar writes a letter to a family he's never met.
He's been writing the annual letters since 1995, and he's never gotten a response. But he's hopeful that someday, someone in the family somewhere in western Michigan will write back. A decision the family made in 1995 — to donate the organs of their loved one, a man in his 30s who died in a car accident — is the reason Gillespie is alive today.
Click here to read the full story at thenewsherald.com
Science Daily.com First Beating Heart Transplant Procedure In The US Performed
Science Daily — Protected by its own nutrients and blood supply, a beating heart supported by an investigational organ preservation device was successfully transplanted into a 47-year-old man with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension on Sunday, April 8. The surgery was performed at UPMC by Kenneth R. McCurry, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, division of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of cardiopulmonary transplantation at UPMC's Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute.
Click here to read the full story at ScienceDaily.com
Baltimoresun.com Ruling on transplants could save more lives
Federal approval granted; multiple donors' kidneys go to unrelated recipients
By Dennis O'Brien and Chris Emery
Sun Reporters
Originally published April 3, 2007
The U.S Justice Department has cleared the way for hospitals nationwide to begin performing what is now a rare transplant operation in which multiple donors give kidneys to unrelated recipients.
Click here to read the full story at baltimoresun.com
Yahoo News 2-for-1 liver transplant saves two
Mon Mar 19, 6:47 PM ET
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON - The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to share with an equally sick baby?
"I can't imagine anyone saying no," the 21-year-old college student said last week as, teary-eyed, she met 8-month-old Allison Brown, carefully cuddling the wide-eyed baby so as not to bump each other's healing incisions.
Click here to read the full story at news.yahoo.com
Palm Beach Post Olympian debuts transplant-success film
Monday, March 19, 2007
By Gretel Sarmiento Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
When Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug decided to make a documentary about organ donation, his goal was to make it fun. As a liver transplant recipient, the medalist wanted to prove that people who get transplants can have great lives. Just in case winning an Olympic bronze medal wasn't proof enough, he made Ride of Your Life.
Click here to read the full story at palmbeachpost.com
The Columbus Dispatch Heart recipient meets family of donor, thanks to ‘Makeover’
Saturday, March 10, 2007
by Tim Feran
A heart-transplant recipient from Amanda, Ohio, plays an important part in the next Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, even though she didn’t get a new home. In a dramatic moment Sunday on the ABC show, Rachel Ball and her parents join the Tipton-Smiths of Waleska, Ga. — who expressed an interest in meeting the recipient of their son and brother’s heart as part of their application video to the program.
All Headline News House Passes Organ Donation Law Making Transplants Easier
March 7, 2007 8:14 p.m. EST
Nidhi Sharma - All Headline News Staff Writer
Washington D.C. (AHN) - The House Wednesday approved a new organ donation law by a 422-0 vote that would make paired donations much easier and also lead to many more kidney transplants each year. The "Charlie W. Norwood Living Organ Donation Act," named for the late Georgia Rep. Charlie Norwood is expected to be adopted by the Senate soon. The legislation states that "paired" kidney donations - that allow a patient with a willing but biologically incompatible donor - don't violate laws against trading organs for compensation.
Click here to read the full story at All Headline News.com
Times Record News.com U.S. Public Is Taking Action to Support Organ Donation,
Gallup Survey Finds
February 15, 2007
HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today announced the results of a 2005 Gallup Organization survey which indicates that Americans continue to strongly support the donation of organs and tissues for transplantation. More importantly, the survey also finds that far higher percentages of Americans have taken personal actions to become organ donors since a similar 1993 survey on donation.
Click here to read the full story at Times Record News.com
Wausau Daily Herald Couple's lives calm after pioneering transplant
It's been an uneventful six months for Chad Stockinger and his wife, Kristin Calhoun Stockinger, and the Wausau couple love it.That's because it has been six months since Kristin, 26, gave Chad a kidney in a first-of-its kind procedure for the University of Wisconsin's organ transplant program.
Click here to read the full story at Wausau Daily Herald.com
Menshealth.com My Father's Life (After Death)
By: William G. Phillips
Seven years ago, my dad gave a stranger the most valuable gift of all: life. You could do the same one day. All it takes is 2 minutes and a pen. Why aren't you an organ donor yet?
Click here to read the full story at Men'sHealth.com
Bloomberg.com Carson Palmer Runs Again on Tendon of Woman Hit by
Drunk Driver
Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Julie De Rossi spent the last night of her life passing out fliers for bands she was managing. As she drove home on a Houston freeway, a BMW traveling at twice the speed limit slammed her from behind.
Click here to read the full story at bloomberg.com
La Times A Little Heart Brings Two Tearful Families Together
Gingerly, Tracey York cradled Nick Draper in the crook of her left arm."Hi, baby," she said.
"Hello, baby."
Quilt honors donors of lifesaving organs, tissue
EAST LANSING - The small quilt square said everything Rosa Barajas wanted
to say to her deceased husband, Roberto: "We love you. We miss you."
Saved By His Daughter's Heart
Ten years ago, this weekend, Szuber got an extraordinary gift from his daughter Patti: her heart. Thanks to Patti's heart, now beating in his own chest, Chet Szuber gets to enjoy being a grandpa.
Transplant survivor marks three decades with brother's
donated kidney
TWIN LAKE - Her brother's gift was supposed to last long enough for Beverly Cline to raise her 14-year-old son.
Reported Rabies Transmission from Organ Transplants
UNOS statement regarding the first reported rabies transmission from organ transplants at www.unos.org/news/newsDetail.asp?id=335
Rabies in Transplant Recipients: Questions and Answers
Released July 2, 2004
On June 30, 2004, CDC confirmed a diagnosis of rabies in three recipients
of transplanted organs and in their common donor (see MMWR article at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm53d701a1.htm). Patients
developed an unexplained febrile illness following transplantation and
subsequently died. State and local health departments and hospitals are
working to evaluate potential contacts of cases to determine if rabies
post-exposure treatment (PEP) is needed for any contacts.
USA Today - 4/18/04
Simple Acts of Sharing are Changing More Lives Read more.
Detroit News - 4/23/04
25 Michigan Hospitals Join Organ Donation Push Read more.
New approach to battling organ rejection
Scientists have created a way for transplant recipients to inhale an anti-rejection drug deep into their new lungs and a study unveiled Saturday suggests the therapy may increase patients' chances of survival four-fold. Read more.
From the brink of death
Sunday, January 4, 2004
BY BARBARA WALTERS
KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
Tami Jacobs had three young children, a husband who loved her and a fulfilling career teaching troubled youngsters. And at 43, hers was a heart failing in every way but love and pluck. By September, the many surgeries and medications she'd endured for 10 years no longer helped. Read More.
Lifesaving Love
Erma Bombeck’s Son Marries His Own Beloved Kidney Donor
Click here to read the full story at ABC News.
'Facing' the future of transplants
Click here to read the full story at MSNBC News
