Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: organ/tissue donation
U-M defeats Ohio State three times in life-saving donation contests
From the University Record & UMHS News: The University of Michigan already has three wins over Ohio State this season, but the real winners are those who need the life-saving donations secured during annual challenges between the Wolverines and the … Continue reading
Hospitals ordered to do more to protect kidney donors
From the New York Times: Addressing long-held concerns about whether organ donors have adequate protections, the country’s transplant regulators acted late Monday to require that hospitals thoroughly inform living kidney donors of the risks they face, fully evaluate their medical … Continue reading
Want to save a life?
Join the Michigan Organ Donor Registry! As part of Michigan Libraries for Life, the Taubman Health Sciences Library is staffing an organ donor registration table at the Information Desk in SPH I today (11-4) and tomorrow (11-4). Stop by and … Continue reading
Q & A on organ donation – Can a long-term survivor of melanoma donate organs?
From the New York Times: A. For most cancers, the longer one is cancer-free, the lower the likelihood that the disease will return, said Dr. James V. Guarrera, surgical director of adult liver transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. … Continue reading
The reward for donating a kidney: No insurance
From the New York Times’ Well blog: When Erika Royer’s lupus led to kidney failure four years ago, her father, Radburn, was able to give her an extraordinary gift: a kidney. Ms. Royer, now 31, regained her kidney function, no … Continue reading
Using a D.M.V. Wait to Enroll Organ Donors
From the New York Times Well blog: Last summer I went to my local Department of Motor Vehicles to renew my driver’s license. When it was my turn after a half-hour wait, a woman behind the counter summoned me, muttered … Continue reading
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Urgent need for South Asian bone marrow donors–Sign up Sept. 26
From the U-M Health System Headlines: Every year, more than 10,000 patients in the U.S. are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia or lymphoma, and their best or only hope of a cure is a transplant from an unrelated … Continue reading
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