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Friendship formed after Airdrie man donates kidney to Calgary stranger
Just over a year ago, Tony Timmons underwent a major surgery for someone who once was a complete stranger. Now, Timmons and Ryan Mclennan have formed a strong, life-long bond
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U.S. proposes new rules to increase organ transplants
U.S. proposes new rules to increase organ transplants – “No life-saving organ should go to waste,” Medicare chief Seema Verma said in announcing stricter standards to hold those agencies more accountable. Under the proposal, Medicare will calculate each OPO’s donation and transplantation rates using federal death records that show the entire pool of potential donors each has to draw from. For the first time, that would allow Medicare to rank OPO performance. Verma promised yearly evaluations, saying any organ agency that didn’t do as well as the top quarter of their competitors would be pushed to improve.
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Stranger Donates Kidney To Dying 2-Year Old’s After Seeing Mom’s Desperate Facebook Post
Joety and Amrik Kandola are the parents to two-year-old Anaya who only had months to live. The parents felt helpless because they were running out of time to find a perfect donor for their little girl. So, they did would any loving parents would do; they took to social media to find a match
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‘One of the lucky ones’: Hockey coach in need of kidney gets transplant date
“Gillis has said that one of the reasons he’s been so public about what he’s going through is that he wants people to sign up as possible donors to help others in his situation”
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