Hip-hop group creates a song on the importance organ donation. Click to listen: Organ Donation Saves Lives
Hip-Hop song: Organ Donation Saves Lives
Friday, January 8, 2010
Hip-hop group creates a song on the importance organ donation. Click to listen: Organ Donation Saves Lives
A cycle of giving
Friday, December 25, 2009
By Keith Reid
Record Staff Writer
December 25, 2009
STOCKTON – Laura Amador’s family receives a gift every day they see her. Her energy. Her smile. Her clean bill of health.
In late June, Amador, 27, received a kidney transplant to survive the effects of an autoimmune disease that caused her kidneys to fail. Continue Reading
Siblings lauded for organ donor drive
Friday, December 4, 2009
By: The Stockton Record
December 4th, 2009
STOCKTON – An organ donor drive at San Joaquin Delta College has registered 462 potential donors, and the organizers – a brother and sister – were recognized Thursday for their efforts. Paul and Laura Amador know what it’s like to give and to receive. Continue Reading
Kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center have a domino effect
Friday, October 23, 2009
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
LA Times
October 23, 2009
At 8:25 Thursday morning, Dr. Peter Schulam extracted a healthy kidney from a 60-year-old woman, slipped it into a bowl of sterile ice and wheeled it into the operating room next door. The donor, Nancy Seruto, a San Dimas mother, had never met the recipient, a 67-year-old retired flight attendant from Santa Ana. Continue Reading
Amador sibling’s spur organ donor sign ups at Delta College
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Joe Goldeen
Record Staff Writer
October 18, 2009
STOCKTON – San Joaquin Delta College students are signing up in record numbers to become organ donors, outdistancing their closest Northern California college rivals by almost six to one in the 2009 Donate Life California Campus Challenge. Continue Reading
The Journey of an Altruistic Kidney Donor
Friday, October 16, 2009
By Carolyn Weaver
New York
16 October 2009
“It was like planning for a long vacation.” That’s how Daryl Julich, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says he budgeted for the cost of donating one of his kidneys to a stranger: several weeks’ lost income and a no-expense-paid trip to New York City. Continue Reading
Organ donation chain forged in Central Valley stretches to 14 lives
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Doug Caldwell October 14, 2009 Central Valley Business Times
A student at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton and his sister are spearheading a drive to get people to pledge that they will donate their organs for transplants (donor card sign ups). Continue Reading
Blood bank, Delta College host organ donor drive
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
STOCKTON – San Joaquin Delta College and Delta Blood Bank will host a blood drive and college club, Dance for Donors, will be advising students to register as organ donors. Continue Reading
‘Altruistic Donor’ Donates Kidney at New York Hospital
Saturday, October 10, 2009
An estimated 62,000 people in the United States have severe kidney failure. To lead a normal life, each needs a new kidney, preferably one transplanted from a healthy living donor. Some are lucky enough to have a family member or friend with a compatible blood type who is willing to donate. But a few will receive a kidney from a complete stranger, an “altruistic donor,” as they’re called, who has decided to undergo surgery to save the life of someone he or she may never know.
2009 National Donation Campus Challenge Registration Numbers
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The current 2009 National Donation Campus Challenge registration numbers for Northern California.