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April 13, 2011

Group wants more organ donors registered

eye surgery Donate Life Maryland is using the month of April to try and encourage more people to register as organ, eye and tissue donors.

They are reminding people that they can sign up at Motor Vehicle Assocation offices. A heart will be placed on their license showing they are a donor.

People can also sign up online through the organization and get a registration card.

Organs that can be donated include: heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and small intestine.

Tissue that can be donated include: corneas, eyes, skin, bone, tendons, ligaments, vessels and heart valves.

More than two million Maryland residents are registered as donors, or 48 percent of those eligible.

About 4,000 people are waiting for donated organs in the Maryland/Washington area.

To read a story about efforts to overtun a ban transplanting HIV-infected organs into others who are already infected, click here.

Posted by Andrea Walker at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: General Health

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Legislation should be passed so that everyone becomes an automatic donor unless they opt-out.

Posted by: Michelle Brown | April 13, 2011 1:10 PM

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About Picture of Health

Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

Andrea K. Walker knows it’s weird to some people, but she has a fascination with fitness, diseases, medicine and other health-related topics. She subscribes to a variety of health and fitness magazines and becomes easily engrossed in the latest research in health and science. An exercise fanatic, she’s probably tried just about every fitness activity there is. Her favorites are running, yoga and kickboxing. So it is probably fitting that she has been assigned to cover the business of healthcare and to become a regular contributor to this blog. Andrea has been at The Sun for nearly 10 years, covering manufacturing, retail , airlines and small and minority business. She looks forward to telling readers about the latest health news.

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