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  California Transplant Donor Network invites you to the 2nd Annual Donate Life Walk & Healthy Family Festival on Saturday, September 6th at 9 a.m. at Chukchansi Park, Fresno.  More...
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  At the California Transplant Donor Network, we allocate kidneys differently than almost everyone else in the United States. More...
  By: Don Kazak - Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly
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  By Kate Gold
In the Madera garage where Candido Benítes-Dominguez lived with four other men, he had few possessions. A stereo, a guitar, a couple of notebooks... More...
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  The Gift Of Life
Transplant Nurse Honors the Past and Brings Hope for the Present
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  By Mary-Jo Lomax / Special to La Voz February 12, 2006 I read the obituary of a man who died at only 26 years old in a rock-climbing accident on Jan. 14. He'd been a paramedic and I'm sure he must have saved many lives in his line of work. Amazingly, he saved many lives even after he died because he was an organ donor. The newspaper article said that his liver, pancreas and heart, lungs and kidneys were all donated to people who were waiting for an organ transplant.  More...
  by EMI NASHVILLE - The personal story of baby Miles Couldson and his failing heart and need to a donor touched millions across the country last year after a feature story ran in Reader's Digest. More...
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  Arte Americas event honors young organ donors for the many lives they saved.  More...
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  In a history-making move, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law Senate Bill 689 More...
  Following is an opinion-editorial written by Reg Green, a resident of La Canada, Calif. More...
  There is a direct correlation between the number of people desperately awaiting lifesaving organ transplants
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  Orangevale father helps fund ad campaign for Internet organ donor registration service More...
  Includes Hispanic Donation and Transplantation National Statistics  More...
  The unselfish act of becoming an organ donor recently took on a new shine with the revelation that Pope
Benedict XVI is the first pope on record as being a card-carrying organ donor. More...
  Filipinas Magazine - September 2005 Issue  More...
  Volunteers are the key to raising awareness in the community about the desperate need for organs and
tissues to save lives. More...
  Nonprofit lets people's dying wish be heard, helps families with hard decision More...
  Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has received an Organ Donation Medal of Honor More...
  Sharon Anne Stout, 19, fell three stories from a fire escape, suffering a major head wound in March
1999. After surgery, it became clear that there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.
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  On March 7, 2004, a California woman named Lori sat down and penned a note to the family
and friends of an organ donor.  More...
  Remembering lives saved is motivation in job More...
  Pittsburg police officer was slain while on duty More...
  Children with organ transplants gather to celebrate More...
  4,000 people attend funeral for slain police officer More...
  Declared brain-dead, he's kept on ventilated support to donate organs More...
  2 Antioch teens held after robbery of bank branch at grocery More...
  Organ and Tissue Transplantation in America More...
  Community Outreach Coordinators Sandy Andrada and Salvador Guerrero will speak on Multicultural
Diversity and Issues on Transplantation.  More...
  Tyler Warren, the Palo Alto resident whose young life highlighted the importance of organ donation, has died. More...
  Event asks whether direct solicitation is unfair More...
  Blood and Tissue Matching Most Important Factors  More...
  Palo Alto family knows importance of organ donation  More...
  Senator Jeff Denham, San Benito's sheriff, YMCA take the lead in registering people with new online
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  Yesterday I registered to become an organ donor, again. More...
  First Seen Live Webcast: Thursday, April 21, 2005 Watch the archive today.  More...
  New Italian Law on Transplants: Cardinal is Donor More...
  A live webcast of a living donor kidney transplant by an internationally-renowned team of physicians will air on April 21, presenting an opportunity for anyone with access to a computer to see the procedure and what it means to be a living kidney donor.  More...
  HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today highlighted National Donate Life Month by calling for greater efforts to educate more Americans on the importance of organ donation. More...
  In an attempt to provide relief to the 18,000 Californians waiting for organ transplants, state officials on Monday announced the creation of an organ and tissue donor registry, the first comprehensive list of willing donors. More...
  That little pink ``donor dot'' on your driver's license just went digital.

California's first online registry for prospective organ donors was launched Monday, a move advocates hope will increase the supply of life-saving hearts, lungs, livers and other parts desperately needed by the 18,000 people on waiting lists in the state. More...
  I am a lucky man. I grew up in a family with much love and many privileges. But my good fortune goes far beyond that. Because of a life-saving transplant, I have lived to see my children grow up healthy and happy in one of the most blessed places on earth. More...
  Despite risks, firefighter will donate part of his liver to bishop in 'amazing' act of generosity. More...
  A Marine who received a liver transplant because of a near-fatal infection that developed after his return from Iraq may now need a bone marrow transplant.  More...
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  Two years ago, Len Geiger was near death, suffering from a severe case of genetic emphysema.  More...
  Earlier in the day she had held her own Nicholas, the son she and her husband had six years ago, as she ran her fingers across Green's engraved image on a plaque. More...
  It's been a decade since a 7-year-old Bodega Bay boy was killed by bandits in southern Italy. His organs went to seven Italians. Now one of them, the first to visit the United States, has just arrived in the Bay Area -- with a son named Nicholas.  More...
  On the lawn outside San Joaquin General Hospital on Sunday afternoon, there was an event that, from afar, might have looked much like a memorial service. More...
  It was a touching tale that grabbed headlines. Little Miles Coulson, just 5 months old, was saved by a heart transplant over Labor Day weekend after his doctors had kept him alive with a heart pump imported from Germany.  More...
  Heather Nugent's family is making sure her death in October 2002 wasn't in vain.  More...
  There were 1,200 packets of Kleenex free for the taking in Hayward on Saturday, but there should have been more. When an event is totally devoted to life and death, it gets very soggy very fast.  More...
  University Medical Center is one of a select number of hospitals nationwide recognized by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson for the hospital's efforts to increase organ donation. More...
  The San Francisco Chronicle wrote a wonderful three-part series on organ donation and transplantation, published January 1, 11 and 19, 2004. Click here for a link to the stories:  More...
  US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced that the month of April will be observed as National Donate Life Month to help raise public awareness of the critical need for organ, tissue, marrow and blood donation.  More...
  Read "Do Unto Others Health Policy: A donor's gift," an opinion piece written by donor mom Eleanor Vincent, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle February 27, 2003.  More...
  The Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO) San Francisco "The City Chapter" now is accepting applications for the Third Annual Vikki Lianne Moritsugu Memorial Scholarship. This $1,000 scholarship is available to organ/tissue candidates, recipients, living donors or donor-family members. Immediate family members of those in the listed categories also are eligible.  More...
  The Transplant Network's Clergy Advisory Panel leads faith-based outreach to strengthen the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellness of Northern and Central California. More...
  Go to www.donevida.org for more information on the national Spanish-speaking campaign for organ donation. More...
  The Alameda County Health Department, Pastors of Oakland Association, Watson Wellness Center and California Transplant Donor Network invite our community to participate in an event designed to improve the physical, mental, educational, economical and societal health of our community...Healthy Oakland 2002. Visit www.healthyoakland.org for schedule and more information. More...
  Campus Donor Day Will Promote Organ and Tissue Donation  More...
  Governor Davis signed a bill last month to create mobile donor registry stations that can be used at events throughout the state to database potential organ donors. More...
  If you live in the Bay Area or Central Valley, you might have noticed the "Are you an organ and tissue donor?" Ad Council billboard campaign. More...
  Despite an increase in both living organ donors and transplant procedures performed in the U.S. in 1999, more than 6000 patients died while waiting for organ transplants. This represents a 19 percent increase from 1998, when 5,034 patients on the waiting list died. More...
  The San Francisco-based California Transplant Donor Network (the Transplant Network) was one of 18 organizations to receive a three-year federal grant to develop innovative programs to increase support for organ and tissue donation. The grants were announced at a White House ceremony by Vice President Al Gore. More...