Recent
News and Articles
 Kidney
donor has heart to spare
4/25/2010
What makes Sherry's gesture so generous is that
she was not paired with a recipient whom she
knows or loves She contacted the Alliance for
Paired Donation.
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Kidney
donation chain reaches Grand Rapids
4/12/2010
There's proof in Grand Rapids today that one
person's generosity can affect many lives. It
all started with an anonymous kidney donor in
the Southern part of the United States who started
a chain reaction.
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Two
kidney donors find perfect matches in strangers
02/18/2009
Christian McNellis wanted to give one of his
kidneys to his mom, but he wasn't a match. Diana
Bolton wanted to give a kidney to her diabetic
brother, but her kidney was too small for her
brother's frame. So they made a deal.
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Living
Kidney Donation Chains May Help More Get
Transplants
03/11/2009
In 2006, one healthy young man stepped forward,
willing to give one of his kidneys to a complete
stranger. Two years later, 10 people had received
new kidneys from that one remarkable altruistic
act.
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Kidney
donor starts chain that reaches 13 people
July 2, 2008
Petosky News-Review
When Matt Jones, 29, of Petoskey donated his
kidney to a woman he didn’t know in Phoenix,
Ariz. on July 18, 2007, he started an altruistic
donation chain which is about to reach 13 people.
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Arvada
woman gets kidney through sharing program
July 29, 2008
Rocky Mountain News
They live in four different states and met only
recently. Yet they are bound by a common experience.
On Wednesday, three of them will donate kidneys
and three will receive them.
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Selflessness,
to the third power
07/29/2008
The Denver Post
3 kidney transplants to occur simultaneously
across countryWith clocks synchronized, three
kidney transplants will happen simultaneously
at three hospitals in three time zones around
the country this morning. At 7:30 a.m. Denver
time, the three-state kidney exchange will begin
with patients in North Carolina, in Alabama and
at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.
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Three-Way
Kidney Swap Helps A Local Woman
08/07/2008
digtriad.com
Winston-Salem -- After spending years on dialysis,
Robin Graves of Winston-Salem was excited when
an old friend offered to donate a kidney.
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Toledo
program allows patients to leave dialysis,
bottlenecked transplant list behind
Angela Heckman sits
in front of the bar at John’s Korner Bar
and Grill near Byrne and Heatherdowns in Toledo,
while Laurie Sarvo, her mother, polishes glasses
behind it. It’s dark inside, long before
the night’s festivities, and it’s
hard to see the one beer-drinker the far end.
But Sarvo can still see the difference in her
daughter.
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UT
group uses computers, economics to make transplant
more effective
When Dr. Michael Rees
sits down in a crowded coffee shop, he doesn’t
see thirsty suburban professionals, or college
students acting pretentious. He sees kidneys.
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A
Daisy Chain of Kidney Donations
Pamela Heckathorn received
a kidney from an anonymous donor on July 30.
The operation not only allowed the 51-year-old
to avoid dialysis treatments; it also kicked
off a chain of transplants that have benefited
a number of other kidney patients.
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| Press Releases |
First
Anniversary Celebration Recognizing Kidney
Donors and Recipients Matched by APD
Toledo, OH – October 7, 2008.
The Alliance for Paired Donation (APD) announces
its First Anniversary Celebration to recognize
the living kidney donors and recipients who have
been connected through the efforts of APD.
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First-ever
kidney swap performed simultaneously in
three states, three time zones
Toledo, OH – July 30, 2008.
The Alliance for Paired Donation announced that
a successful three-state kidney exchange occurred
on July 30 with patients in North Carolina, Colorado,
and Alabama receiving a living donor kidney transplant
simultaneously.
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One
Generous Gift Results in Ten Transplants
Toledo, OH July 18, 2008 - The Alliance
for Paired Donation (APD) announced that today
marks the first anniversary of the world’s
first NEAD (Never-Ending Altruistic Donor) chain,
wherein Matt Jones, a then-28-year-old donor
from Petoskey, Michigan sparked a chain of ten
kidney transplants, with more on the way.
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the pdf... |
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