• 4/19/13 Mother Hears Daughter's Donated Heartbeat  (video)
  
• 4/13/13 Nice bench gift story about our friend Reg Green
  
• 2/28/13 Stem Cell 'Homing' Signal May Help Treat Heart Failure Patients
  
• 2/13/13 PBS movie available on-line: Transplant: A Gift for Life
  
• 1/3/13 Biomarkers may give early warning of late heart transplant rejection
  
• 12/8/12 Study May Change How Transplant Physicians Practice
  
• 12/4/12 Doctors evaluating lung transplant candidates for Spectrum Health's new program (Michigan)
  
• 11/18/12  Heart Transplants for Older Patients
  
• 11/7/12 Living Organ Donation Rate Does Not Increase With State Tax Incentives
  
• 11/3/12 Pastor Max Lucado preaches on heart transplant (video sermon)
  
• 10/24/12 Giving the Gift of Life Through Organ Donation: Chris Barry at TEDxFlourCity (video)
  
• 10/2/12 (from Canada) Many Support Financial Incentives to Encourage Organ Donation
• 9/5/12 Replacement Parts (from The Scientist magazine of Aug 2012)
  
• 9/1/12 Giving a Child a New Heart
• 8/30/12 Tissue-Engineered Heart Steps Closer with Embedded Nanowires
• 8/26/12 10 Useless Body Parts
• 8/16/12 Scientists Are Solving Our Donor Crisis With Lab-Grown Organs (link through to see each organ's story and forecast)
• 8/8/12 Bioethicist: Families, stop thwarting organ donors
• 8/6/12 Human HLA genes are evolving much more rapidly than previously thought
  
• 8/5/12 Molecule Discovered That Converts Stem Cells into Heart Cells
• 7/13/12 Organ Donation: Don't let these myths confuse you
  
• 6/27/12 Local Philadelphia "donor dad" honored by UNOS
  
• 6/27/12 Change of Heart: The Future of transplant surgery?  Say Good-bye to the Picnic Cooler . . .
• 6/19/12 CBS tv station launches year long donor awareness campaign (video)
• 6/19/12 NJ's 1st Successful "Beating" Donor  Heart Transport/Transplant at Newark Beth Israel Med Ctr
• 6/7/12 Woman Dies While Donating Kidney to Relative
• 5/22/12 Transplant breakthrough as livers 'kept alive' outside body giving hope to hundreds
• 5/18/12 Gift of Life: Inside Look to Organ Donation (a general resource and many useful links)
  
• 5/2/12 ABC News reporting major increase in organ donor registrations after Facebook feature released
  
• 4/26/12 Kidney recycled through living donation after previous transplant failed
  
• 4/11/12 NY State Unveils New Online Service to Increase Organ Donations
  
• 3/29/12 Key Mechanism Involved in Type 2 Diabetes
  
• 3/25/12 How Stuff Works: Organ transplants (simple article description of the overall process)
  
• 3/24/12 Resources for understanding the WSJ Teresi article
  
• 3/15/12 What You Lose When You Sign That Donor Card
  
• 2/29/12 DLA Announces 12 Women of 2012 Inspire Americans to be Organ & Tissue Donors
  
• 1/17/12 U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
  
• 1/14/12 1000's of Seniors Lack Access to Lifesaving Organs, Despite Survival Benefit
  
• 12/28/11 TRIO NE Fla Member Interviewed on Waiting Time after Helicopter Crash story (video)
  
• 12/21/11 For Illegal Immigrant, Line Is Drawn at Transplant (NY Times)
  
• 12/6/11 Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal (NY Times Opinion article)
  
• 12/6/11 Common Hospital Infection Lengthens Patient Stays
  
• 12/5/11 Donor families lose their say after transplant system overhaul (Australia)
  
• 12/5/11 Growing Organs in the lab: A Potential end to immune rejection
  
• Organ Donation: Don't let these myths confuse you
  
• Recipient's Immune System Govern Stem Cell Regeneration
  
• Snakes Offer Key to Enlarged Heart Cells
  
• Scientists Grow Human Heart in Lab Using Adult Stem Cells
  
• Dramatic Prescriptions for Doctors
  
• Lab-Made Trachea Saves Man
  
• Ring! Time for Blood Test (mobile med apps)
  
• Five body parts you may be able to regrow soon(ish) (a Popular Mechanics article)
  
• So Fla Woman Uses Craiglist to find living kidney donor
  
• Ohio Transplant candidate turns to web for donors
  
• Calif DMV now requires organ donor answer
• Mismatch Matters for Kids' Kidney Transplants
  
•  Study Finds Heart Transplant Recipients Much Higher Risk for Skin Cancer
  
• The Ethicist: Life Preserver (living donor decision article - chain or single?)
  
• One Death Provides New Life for Many (NY Times donor meeting recipients article)
  
• Marine Animal Study May Shed Light on Transplanted Organ Rejection
  
• Researchers Create Nanopatch for the Heart
  
• Dr. Oz promoting "Forks over Knives" new movie about life changing eating habits
  
• Lung Transplant Recipient Results Improved Long Term with Inhaled Anti-rejection Drugs
  
• Kidney Transplants Faring Better Than Previously Reported
  
• MNIT KIDNEY TRANSPLANT VIDEO NOVELA PROJECT (a PDF document announcing grant)
  
• (video) The Skin Gun  (regrowing human skin tissue in days, not months)
  
• Implantable Artificial Kidney may cure chronic kidney disease (a possible future  alternative to kidney transplant)
  
•  Newborn Heart Muscle Can Grow Back by Itself, Study Shows
  
•  Redesign of US Donor-Liver Network Could Boost Transplants by Several Hundred Per Year
  
• Understanding Transplant Statistics (understanding Wait times, Survival rates)
  
• Liver Transplant Wait Depends On Where You Live
  
• Adult Skin Cells Converted Directly to Beating Heart Cells
  
• Timeline History of Transplantation - interesting on-line resource
  
•  Arizona Shooting 9-year Old Victim  Saves Boston Girl's Life through organ donation - Christina, born on 9/11...
  
  
  
•  Pilot Holds Plane for Grieving Grandfather - toddler gives gift of life through organ donaition
  
• Patient Education Resources from ITNS - The International Transplant Nurses Society has a library of excellent booklets for transplant patients including a free 7-CD set covering many topics of interest.  Of special interest might be their Sexual Health Post Transplant: What Every Transplant Patient Needs to Know, a topic seldom explained.  Check it all out at (click here -->) http://www.itns.org/ITNS_transplant_educational_materials.php
  
• TRIO partners with Transplant Buddies.com for enhanced web forum resource TRIO President, JT Rhodes: In support of our members, TRIO announces a newly formed partnership with Transplantbuddies. Their message board is very active and contains great info and discussions of interest to all transplant recipients.
  Members can go to our bulletin board link from this home page (see navigation link above) where they will have the option to still use the existing TRIO BBS or, link and post on transplantbuddies. TRIO encourages all members to use this opportunity to ask and respond to questions about transplantation.
     Special note: When registering, TRIO members should use "TRIO" in their username (such as "JTRTRIO") so that all members of transplant buddies will know that they are TRIO members.

• TRIO issues formal Position Statement on Incentives for Organ Donation TRIO's Board of Directors has adopted a Position Statement that TRIO supports the concept that reward for organ donation must be studied in America.
  - Read TRIO's official Position Statement  (<--click to download 76k PDF document)
  - Read Press Release issued on November 19, 2008  (<--click to download 76k PDF document)
  - Click to go to Bulletin Board topic to post your comments
  

• "The Gift That Heals" released in new audio version and "The Nicholas Effect" comes out in 15th Anniversary Edition To read Reg Green's latest beautiful article, click on this link --> Donor Family Treated Like Royalty.
  
  For many who wanted to know more after hearing that his book, "The Gift that Heals," was such a hit at the ITNS/TRIO Symposium in St. Louis with TRIO buying 500 copies as thank you gifts for nurses arond the world (see event story below), it tells the inspiring stories of families at every stage of the transplantation process. Updates: The Gift That Heals has just become the first transplant book to be released in an audio version, AND the print version of Reg Green's original book,
  

The Nicholas Effect,(<-- click for description) has just been re-released with additonal updated content in advance of the 15th anniversary of that fateful day when Nicholas was shot in Italy, Sept 29th.  "Congratulations Reg!!" - for more information contact www.authorhouse.com .

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• TRIO 2008 Fall Conference with ITNS Huge Success
  
  
  
  
  
     TRIO joined with the ITNS (International Transplant Nurses Society) Sept 25-27th, 2008 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis for an exciting convention filled with educational workshops and over 400+ transplant nurses from 17 countries around the world.
     Click on the article titles below for the full story or to download the handout...
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• Article: TRIO Holds 2008 Symposium in St. Louis, MO
• Article: TRIO Delivers Global Thank You's to ITNS Nurses
• Article: TRIO Scholarship Winner's Impressions from the 2008 Conference
• Article: TRIO Thanks Symposium Sponsors
• Article: Thank you letters posted for nurses around the world to read (last updated 1/9/09 with several hundred eventually being posted)
• Article: Reactions to Thank You letters
• Download: Presenter, Vanessa Underwood's Fitness Handout (190k PDF)



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