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  2. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Wikipedia

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    The UAGA of 2006 allows for individuals to consent to organ donation by expressing their wish when obtaining a driver's license, through verbal expression, by writing it in a will or other advance directive, or in any other manner, simplifying the consent process. [3] This is also known as "opting in" to organ donation.

  3. Raising awareness of organ donation in the Finger Lakes - AOL

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    UR Medicine Thompson Health and the nonprofit organization Donate Life New York State are teaming up to raise awareness of the lifesaving impact made by organ, eye and tissue donors.

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.

  5. National Marrow Donor Program - Wikipedia

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    DKMS US, in New York City is part of the larger DKMS donor center based in Germany and hosts donor drives nationwide and lists those who register on the Be The Match registry, run by the NMDP. In May 2004, the Gift of Life Marrow Registry and the NMDP formed an associate donor registry partnership.

  6. My son saved four lives through organ donation. Each April we ...

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    Witnessing the power of donation firsthand has inspired many of our family members to register as organ donors as well. My son saved four lives through organ donation. Each April we honor his life ...

  7. What people get wrong about organ donation and how it ... - AOL

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    Most people know that organ donations save lives and, in fact, more than 90 percent of Americans support organ donation. But only about 50 percent of U.S. adults are actually registered organ and ...

  8. Organ procurement organization - Wikipedia

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    Once the OPO receives authorization for donation from the decedent's family or through first-person authorization (such as a state or national Donor Registry), it works with UNOS to identify the best candidates for the available organs, and coordinates with the surgical team for each organ recipient.

  9. Flight delays for organs: Here's why the donation ... - AOL

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    The network's letter asks the DOT to reevaluate some of those rules to make the organ transportation process more streamlined. "Practical, logistical, and regulatory obstacles to the safe and ...