Wake Forest Baseball Coach Donates Kidney to Player
ATLANTA — When Wake Forest offered him a baseball scholarship, outfielder Kevin Jordan focused his research on what any high school athlete would: the opportunity for playing time.
New York waiting list candidates as of today:
9,445
Recent News
Health Link: Saving Lives through Organ Donation
On February 10, 2011 WMHT aired a program on their series “Health Link with Benita Zahn” on Organ Donation. The Center for Donation and Transplant’s Executive Director Jeffrey Orlowski (Alliance Board Member) was featured. See the video here:
Woman can speak again after voice box transplant
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A woman whose natural voice could have been silenced forever because of vocal cord damage is able to talk again after undergoing a rare voice box transplant.
9-year-old shooting victim’s organs help save child
The organs of nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest victim of last week’s shootings in Tucson, Ariz., have been donated to a Boston-area child, her father revealed to The Boston Globe.
New York Has a Smart New Program to Rush Surgical Teams to Collect Organ Donations
New York has embarked on an attempt to save lives by innovatingly increasing the number of organs harvested for transplantation in the city.
Frustrated that almost 500 people die here every year while hoping for transplants, the Police and Fire departments, Bellevue Hospital and the New York Organ Donor Network will seek out organs as soon as deaths are reported – wherever they are reported.