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Double lung transplant recipient encouraging organ donation
For Natalie Daoust, time is never something she has taken for granted. The North Bay resident was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was two years old. Now twenty-five years old, she wasn’t sure she would make it this far.
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American Study Shows that Thousands of Viable Kidneys are Discarded and Not Used For Transplantation Every year
According to a study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, at least 3,500 donated kidneys are discarded every year despite a waiting list of more than 90,000 people in the United States.
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Cree rapper Hellnback opens up about kidney disease diagnosis
At 19, he was told he had Type 2 diabetes but ‘As a teenager you… just kind of brush it off’
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‘It was a gift:’ Riverview man receives kidney donation after 3-year wait
A Riverview man who put an ad on his car looking for a kidney donor has a new lease on life. Dan McLaughlin’s plea for a kidney went unanswered for three years. But three weeks ago on Friday, he and his wife got the life changing call.
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Lives Lost, Organs Wasted.
The chronic shortage of organs for transplant could be eased by changing who qualifies as a donor.
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