http://www.dancefordonors.org Factual information for potential organ donors as well as personal accounts about organ transplantation. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.dancefordonors.org http://www.dancefordonors.org/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon6.ico http://www.dancefordonors.org/2010/national-donation-campus-challenge/hip-hop-song-organ-donation-saves-lives-1056/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2010/national-donation-campus-challenge/hip-hop-song-organ-donation-saves-lives-1056/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:04:14 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=1056 Hip-hop group creates a song on the importance organ donation. Click to listen: Organ Donation Saves Lives Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Tweet This! ]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2010/national-donation-campus-challenge/hip-hop-song-organ-donation-saves-lives-1056/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:31:40 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=1018 By: Joe Goldeen Record Staff Writer December 25, 2009 STOCKTON – Christmas came early this year for little Aaliyah Soleil Morris, who received a transplanted heart March 31 at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto. She turned 2 on Nov. 9. For her grandparents, who have custody of Aaliyah, today marks “a chance to do Christmas [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:20:59 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=1010 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. Her illness, known as Wegener’s [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/feed/ 2 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/skin/wife-of-boston%e2%80%99s-first-facial-transplant-donor-shares-story-966/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/skin/wife-of-boston%e2%80%99s-first-facial-transplant-donor-shares-story-966/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:49:25 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=966 BOSTON NEWS December 22, 2009 “In April, we got a call that there was a heart and we went into the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He didn’t make it out,” said Susan Whitman, widow of the facial transplant donor. Before Whitman’s husband, Joseph Helfgot, died from complications of a heart transplant last April, he made it absolutely [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/skin/wife-of-boston%e2%80%99s-first-facial-transplant-donor-shares-story-966/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/siblings-lauded-for-organ-donor-drive-933/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/siblings-lauded-for-organ-donor-drive-933/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:17:39 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=933 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. Laura Amador, 27, [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/siblings-lauded-for-organ-donor-drive-933/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:36:47 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=785 TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced today that Cleveland Clinic has performed the world’s first Total Artificial Heart to dual heart and liver transplant. “Cleveland Clinic has made medical history with their use of the Total Artificial Heart to bridge a very ill patient to a [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/feed/ 1 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:11:18 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=685 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 [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/feed/ 1 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/intestine/toddler-celebrates-anniversary-of-intestine-transplant-792/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/intestine/toddler-celebrates-anniversary-of-intestine-transplant-792/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:48:40 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=792 By Pamela Hickman Leesville Daily Leader Tue Oct 20, 2009, 08:00 AM CDT Two years after receiving a bowel transplant, Kylie Walleser-Bush, is doing her best to live a normal life, and her family sends a big thank you to the Leesville community for its continued support. Walleser-Bush was born on February 10, 2006 with a birth defect [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/intestine/toddler-celebrates-anniversary-of-intestine-transplant-792/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/amador-siblings-spur-organ-donor-sign-ups-at-delta-college-309/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/amador-siblings-spur-organ-donor-sign-ups-at-delta-college-309/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:15:49 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=309 A brother and sister involved in Northern California’s first kidney donor chain this summer, bring greater awareness to the need for organ donations. ]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/amador-siblings-spur-organ-donor-sign-ups-at-delta-college-309/feed/ 3 http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:23:28 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/?p=714 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. Of course, few people would plan [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/feed/ 0