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Young Oklahoma patients get help managing chronic disease Updated: Thu, May 10, 2012 Transitions program at The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center helps young chronically ill patients graduate to adult treatment. Read More
Facebook to make it easy to be organ donor Published: Wed, May 2, 2012 Facebook users in the United States and Britain can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday. Read More
Organ donation: you're never too old Published: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 Dear Savvy Senior: Is there an age limit on being an organ donor? At age 73, I’m interested in being a donor when I die, but am wondering if they would still want my organs. What can you tell me, and what do I need to do to sign up? -- Willing But Old Dear Willing: There’s no defined cutoff age for... Read More
Define your uniqueness and create your brand Updated: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 Meet Steven! Steven met me at an event I facilitated, an event he attended in order to learn how to craft an effective résumé. After listening to my presentation and further reflecting on how he was going to present his experience on paper, he decided to contact me for help. Steven had a varied background,... Read More
Define your uniqueness and create your brand Published: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 Meet Steven! Steven met me at an event I facilitated, an event he attended in order to learn how to craft an effective résumé. After listening to my presentation and further reflecting on how he was going to present his experience on paper, he decided to contact me for help. Steven had a varied background,... Read More
Define Your Uniqueness and Create Your Brand Published: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 Meet Steven! Steven met me at an event I facilitated, an event he attended in order to learn how to craft an effective résumé. After listening to my presentation and further reflecting on how he was going to present his experience on paper, he decided to contact me for help. Steven had a varied background,... Read More
Sisters who will share kidney released from prison Updated: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Two sisters whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other were released from a Mississippi prison on Friday after serving 16 years for an armed robbery. Jamie and Gladys Scott waved to reporters and yelled, "We're free!" and "God bless y'all!" as... Read More
Doctors testing warm, beating hearts in transplant Updated: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 LOS ANGELES — Andrea Ybarra's donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time she awoke from the grogginess of her surgery. Read More
George Lopez, wife ending 17-year marriage Updated: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A publicist says George Lopez and his wife are ending their 17-year marriage. A brief statement issued Monday by publicist Ina Treciokas says the comedian and his wife Ann came to the decision together and the breakup will be amicable. It did not offer further details, other than to say... Read More
Letters to the editor: Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009 Published: Sun, Nov 1, 2009 Preserve this lifeline I’m dismayed that the threat of curtailment of senior citizen meal programs throughout Oklahoma has reached the 11th hour with no better solution than closing many centers and disrupting meals to the elderly homebound. As a regular participant at the Edmond Senior Center, I’ve seen the... Read More
Former Dallas RB Springs Falls Into Coma Updated: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 DALLAS (AP) -- Former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs has been hospitalized in a coma, more than seven months after receiving a kidney donated by ex-teammate Everson Walls. The Washington Redskins said Tuesday cornerback Shawn Springs, son of the 50-year-old Springs, has left the team to be with... Read More
Conjoined twins, 4, prepare for surgery Published: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- They were born in a perpetual hug, their little bodies fused at the midsection so that they are practically face-to-face, and have grown into outgoing 4-year-olds who chatter away and finish each other's sentences. Kendra and Maliyah Herrin say they like being together all the time, but... Read More
Vintage Visions: Organ donation should be planned within families Updated: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 Few decisions we have to make in life are more difficult than organ and tissue donations. That particular decision has to be made at the most stressful time in life -- the death of a loved one. I faced this traumatic situation April 24 when my husband collapsed and died while walking along the Lake Hefner trails.... Read More
Coin more than just a quarter Updated: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 The quarter stashed safely in Kate Drohan's desk drawer looks like every other quarter. It isn't particularly shiny. It isn't especially old either. But to the Northwestern softball coach, that quarter changed her life. And saved her father's. With the original eight-team field at the Women's College World Series... Read More
Students raise money in memory of teen Updated: Wed, May 24, 2006 You may remember this story from this time last year. Two Lexington boys organized a fishing tournament to raise money for Brittanee Baade who needed a liver and kidney transplant. Sadly, Brittanee died before the organs became available. But as Kirsten McIntyre discovered, her death is now inspiring young people... Read More
Former lawmaker grateful for organ Updated: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 The contributions one can make after death can bring the gift of life. Donating an organ. New Sunday night Rosa Flores talks with one former lawmaker who's living today because of that donation. Read More
Picnic unites organ donors and recipients Updated: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 Organ recipients meet donor's family at picnic. Read More
Financial gifts encouraged for organ donor fund Updated: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 The Oklahoma Organ Donor Education and Awareness Program Advisory Council wants Oklahomans to make a financial gift from their state income taxes to the Oklahoma Organ Donor Education Fund. The fund supports programs to help educate Oklahomans about organ, eye and tissue donation. Oklahoma's State Income Tax Form... Read More
Piedmont students aid transplant recipient Updated: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 High school students band together to help one of their own. Keely Cornelson, 17, recently underwent a liver transplant after years of battling liver cancer. Read More
Organ recipient feels donor's presence Updated: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 The gift of life is a precious thing and for some it's the ultimate loss. But it appears in some cases everything is not always lost in an organ transplant. Thursday night an unusual case of sharing organs and sharing lives. Read More
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