Organ donation News
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Greg Welsh, 47, finally received a donor heart transplant after 120 days of life with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Having lost his wife in a car accident, Welsh has seen both sides of organ donation.
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It's the hardest time for two families both waiting for doctors to walk down those long hospital corridors. For one the news will be heartbreaking and for the other the words will fill their hearts with hope.
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Last year nearly 700 Canadians were saved because of a record number of organ donors. There were 218 deceased organ donors and 1,299 tissue donors in 2009, a trend that is continuing in 2010.
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A 15-year-old boy from Oxnard, California ,is brain dead but on life support after a school shooting on Tuesday. Lawrence King was shot in the head at E.O. Green Junior High by another teenage boy.
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Currently there is a debate to overhaul the current donor system. Due to a serious shortage of organs for transplants will mean that surgeons will have no choice but to use parts from drug addicts.
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Ethics won't stop Richard Brodlieb from jumping the queue if and when he'll need a liver transplant.
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Organ donation Headlines
Doctors are calling for more to be done to improve levels of organ donation.
 Organ donation rates have stagnated in Canada since 2006, according to a new report.
The NHS and social networking site Facebook have joined forces in an attempt to increase the number of organs being donated.
Society should have a fresh debate on organ donation, according to a new report by the British Medical Association.
 An Ottawa woman living in Toronto as she awaits a double-lung transplant appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday to talk about the importance of organ donation.
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December 2011: SynCardia Total Artificial Heart recipient Greg Welsh post-transplant with his daughter Cassandra at her graduation from Arizona State University with her master's degree in teaching.
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