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Young Transplant Recipient Advocates for More Donors
Young kidney recipient, Bransen Fernando, shares his story for Pediatric Transplant Week.
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Donate Life Plans Event on the Square
Looking ahead to 2019's Donate Life Month, Aimee Adelmann and Caitlin Feely want people to know that "Life is a Beautiful Ride."
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Donate Life NW Hosting Bike Event to Raise Awareness
Donate Life Northwest is hosting the "Life is a Beautiful Ride" event at Pioneer Square to spread awareness of the need for donors while paying tribute to late cyclist and tissue donor, David Oliphant.
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Kidney Recipient Helps 'Erase the Wait' For Man
Sherwood High School teacher, Sarah Holtz, is alive today because her fellow teacher, Carolyn Davidson, donated a kidney. Now, Sarah's paying the kindness forward through volunteering as a mentor with Donate Life Norhtwest's 'Erase the Wait' program...
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Oregon Women Start Group to Encourage Kidney Donations
A group of Oregon women are starting a program to encourage more people to donate a kidney. Women Encouraging Living Donation (WELD) are particularly focused on organs from live donors.
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'Kids at Heart' Customer Donates Kidney to Owner
For about 30 years, Liz Campbell has owned the toy store 'Kids at Heart' on SE Hawthorne in Portland. In her line of work, she's usually the one supplying the presents -- but when she needed a kidney transplant last year, it was one of her customers...
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Eugene Man Donates Kidney to Fellow Vietnam Veteran He Hadn't Seen in 45 Years
Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe and Madagascar, Jim McGee needed a kidney. And though they hadn't seen each other in nearly half a century, 70-year-old Doug Coffman was happy to give one of his to save his old friend.
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Albany Teen Seeks Second Liver Transplant
Chrystee Houser is hoping for a second miracle. Fifteen years ago, Houser’s son Rhyson was just 10 months old when his failing liver was replaced with a healthy one from a donor. Now, that liver is failing, and Rhyson and his family are hoping for...
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Doctors Explore Lifting Barriers to Living Organ Donation
Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumor was too advanced, they said -- even though Goudge had a friend ready to be her living donor. But then, she found a hospital on the...
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Hood to Coast Relay Team Celebrates Gift of Life
Living donors, recipients, family members -- they have come together now for 21 years to walk in the Portland to Coast relay and honor the donations and transplantations they've experienced. They are celebrating life together.
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