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DON JAMES NEEDS A KIDNEY: The Somerset resident, and seasonal renter and visitor in Provincetown, is in need of kidney, and a GoFundMe campaign is underway to help: I am officially listed on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) kidney transplant waiting list at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I m trying to hang in there and am doing the very best that I can. Problem is that the wait is six years. It s doubtful I will live long enough so I need a living donor as soon as possible, according to the GoFundMe campaign. For information, visit https://gofund.me/ee9034ab
Southwest Transplant Alliance introduces new Corporate Headquarters and The Legacy Center
New state-of-the-art corporate campus includes organ and tissue recovery facility to help save more lives
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DALLAS, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In a virtual ceremony, Southwest Transplant Alliance (STA) announced the opening of its new corporate campus and dedicated the space to those who give the gift of life through organ and tissue donation. The site includes a state-of-the-art organ and tissue recovery center, appropriately named The Legacy Center. In this space, organ and tissue recovery procedures are performed, and donors leave a lasting legacy in the lives of others. The Legacy Center is the newest facility devoted to organ and tissue recovery in the nation and supports STA s standing as a top-performing organ procurement organization in the country.
“This is at least the first proven case of transmission of covid-19 via organ transplantation in the United States,” the director of Michigan Medicine’s transplant infectious-disease service said.
Feb 23, 2021
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Debbie Dyson, a retired teacher living in Indianapolis, Indiana, got the first dose of the Moderna vaccine a few days before turning 65 and wasted no time turning her attention to travel.
“As soon as that shot was in my arm, I was online planning my first trip,” she said. Her first priority: Rebooking three trips she had to cancel last year, the first of which will be to Maui in March. She has also rescheduled a road trip out West with friends to visit Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone and other national parks and monuments.