Lisa and Chris Miller: Facebook Game Connects Strangers, Leads To Life ...
Over the last three years, Miller made it her mission to find a kidney donor for Tiffany. She used every resource at her disposal -- Facebook, her friends, and word-of-mouth. What she didn't realize, however, was that the perfect donor was living in ...www.huffingtonpost.com
KCTV5Facebook game connects 2 families and saves a life
For the past three years, Miller made it her mission to find a kidney donor for Tiffany. She posted on Facebook and talked to everyone she knew.www.kctv5.com
SA man finds kidney donor through Facebook
"I know a lot of people look at (Facebook) as a negative tool, but it's a very positive tool if used correctly." The page "Kidney Donors Save Lives" went up Sept. 12 with Doria providing criteria for the donor, along with pictures of Moreno spending ...www.ksat.com
Gainesville man discovers he's the perfect match for stranger in need of an ...
Four years ago, Lisa Miller played a game on Facebook that started a life-changing chain of events. ... Their friendship extended into real life with long distance phone calls and Miller's exhaustive attempts to find the young woman a kidney donor. The ...www.gainesvilletimes.com
Kidney trouble for double-lung recipient Helene Campbell
Kidney trouble for double-lung recipient Helene Campbell. Double-lung transplant recipient Helene Campbell smiles during a news conference announcing Facebook would allow users to indicate their donor status in Ottawa, Tuesday September 18, 2012.www.thespec.com
FishHawk Youth Raise Funds for Mother in Need of Kidney Transplant
Well aware of the financial costs facing families of kidney patients, Carver started OperationKidney to raise funds for medical bills and travel expenses.bloomingdale.patch.com
COLUMN: Donor network seeks match made in heaven
She took her case to Facebook. Literature was handed out to people attending everything from fund-raisers to blood drives. Shelly wasn't trying to influence potential voters.www.recordonline.com
REGION: Three Inland residents to ride Rose Parade float
That all changed in August 2005, when five years on the waiting list ended with a kidney transplant. Two years after his transplant, ... If you don't want your comment to appear on Facebook, uncheck the 'Post to Facebook' box. To find out more, read ...www.pe.com
Silent Killers Plague Martin At Only 34
They have already started the Help Donate a Kidney - Martin Gitonga on Facebook and are also using Twitter to raise funds for his treatment.allafrica.com
Saving strangers through social media
The two met the next day, and Ricky volunteered to donate a kidney to Jeffrey. ... In fact, on May 1, Facebook enabled an option that helps users register as donors and share their donor status with others to increase awareness and deepen the donor pool.www.fox23news.com
A Mom Turns to Facebook for a Liver — and a Shot at Life
Live-donor liver transplants are more technically difficult than donor kidney transplants, and the magnitude of what she's asking for is not lost on Deb or her family.healthland.time.com
Jay Williams honored for commitment to organ donation
... Sharon Hirsch said. Williams received the award for advocating the use of the Facebook feature that allows users to indicate in their status whether they are organ donors. Both Williams' mother and late grandmother struggled with polycystic kidney ...www.heraldsun.com
Mystery kidney disease decimates Central America sugarcane workers
In the past 10 years, it's believed that hundreds, if not thousands, of residents of Chichigalpa - mostly male sugarcane workers - have died from chronic kidney disease, or CKD. That in a city of nearly 60,000, .... After workers complained about the ...openchannel.nbcnews.com
44 Halloween Haunts and Jaunts
A Wicked Affair—Drinks, dancing and a costume contest in support of organ donation, benefiting the National Kidney Foundation of Greater Cincinnati. $40 for single tickets and $75 for ... 513-265-8530, facebook.com/awickedaffair. Augusta Ghost Tour—A ...www.citybeat.com
Fundraiser planned for organ transplant patients
Waun, Hagan and his seven surviving siblings are expected to celebrate their common thread of organ donation and help promote it for others Friday at Paxon Hollow Country Club in Marple, where the Kassie's Gift of Life Memorial Golf Outing will be staged.www.dailylocal.com
Shelley Berkley Faces Dean Heller In Nevada Senate Race
Federal regulators moved to shut down the kidney transplant program, but the proposed penalty brought a rebuke from Representative Shelley Berkley, Democrat of Nevada, who helped lead a successful effort to get the officials from Washington to back ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Organ donation figures improve
"He had already pledged to donate his kidneys, eye corneas and heart valves 15 years ago, which were used within the week after his death," said the education manager from Petaling Jaya.www.mmail.com.my
Benefit show to be held this weekend at Spire Theater
There was a moment during intermission when Ryan and his kidney donor, a stranger to Ryan before that selfless act, came up on stage and Ryan thanked the man with a warm embrace.www.observertoday.com
The Web The Oakland Press
Photographer Kim Sisk will be taking pictures of your pets for a small donation. - Dancing with the Doctors is from 5:30-11 p.m.www.theoaklandpress.com
Cancer center outdoor healing garden breaks ground
Her father donated one of his kidneys in 1993, but earlier this year, Enberg learned her donated kidney is going into rejection, and she needs another kidney somewhere in the next two to five years. ... page on the New River Medical Center's website ...monticellotimes.com
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