With increasing organ demand, living kidney donation from older donors has become more common. A new Clinical Transplantation study indicates that kidney donation among carefully-selected adults over 60 years of age poses minimal perioperative risks and no added risk of long-term kidney failure. A combination of an aging population and an overwhelming kidney transplant waitlist… Continue reading Can Older Adults Safely Donate Kidneys?
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Hurricane Giving: How to Make The Most of Your Donation
In the wake of natural disasters, let your giving be guided by both your head and your heart. Letting raw emotion drive your charitable giving can lead you to be less effective or even counterproductive. Many people just give to the first charity they think of, usually a big-name organization such as UNICEF or the… Continue reading Hurricane Giving: How to Make The Most of Your Donation
My Sister’s Lungs, Part Two: Someone Has to Die for My Sister to Live
Editor’s Note: In the second part of a five-part series, thirdAGE contributor Nancy Wurtzel (at left in the above photo) shares the ordeal her sister Barbara (at right in the above photo) is undergoing as she waits for a match for a lung transplant. Barbara’s situation is complicated by the fact that her husband, Jim,… Continue reading My Sister’s Lungs, Part Two: Someone Has to Die for My Sister to Live
The Organ Transplant Gap
In the circle of life, everyone dies. But what if a part of you could continue living, even after your body has expired? Thanks to modern medicine, you could extend life for others if you choose to donate your body’s organs, eyes and tissue after your death. What a remarkable, even heroic gift. Personally, organ… Continue reading The Organ Transplant Gap