Unsaid of the Undead: Zombie Transplant Resource Guide is live!!!
Get ready for our online live webinar May 23rd, 2012 11:00am (Pacific Standard Time)! Unsaid of the undead: A panel discussion exploring zombi(e)-transplant connections In anticipation of this interwebs to-do, we’ve lassoed some pretty great reads and spun a killer soundtrack for the forthcoming exploration in a handy dandy resource guide. It features scholarly works from … Read more
Unsaid of the undead: A panel discussion exploring zombi(e)-transplant connections
It started with a throwaway line in The Walking Dead. But for the TransplantInformers team, things blew up from there. Not only did Steven Yeun’s retweet (Big ups Mr. Yeun!) bring a slew of readers our way, it showed us that there is an audience rabid to explore the connections between zombies and transplantation. Zombies … Read more
News Roundup #13: Facebook boosting organ donors, Kidney in a third body, UK’s first trafficking case,
It seems this roundup is lucky number 13, with the a groundbreaking, cusp-of-viral, organ donation initiative from Facebook, unprecedented kidney re-transplantation, and a whole slew of other newsy goodness. Organ donor: Like? 100 million new organ donors in the next four days? Entirely possible, claims Dr. Andrew Cameron, the physician who helped usher organ donor … Read more
Youth speaking out! Pint sized pioneers urging bone marrow donor registration
They may not be eligible as bone marrow donors, and some are patients themselves, but the under-18 set are proving to be vocal on the matter of donation. In a New York Daily News story, two boys , Luis Danvers (a second grader with leukemia) and his BFF Jack Szablewski have joined forces to show … Read more
What Do Zombies and Actor Steven Yeun Have in Common? Organ Donation!
by Claire de Louraille and Emily Avera If you have not heard of AMC network’s The Walking Dead I’ll be fairly impressed since it’s the most watched basic cable drama in television history. With an 8.1 million viewers for the Season 2 premiere, it’s not a television show to dismiss. For the uninitiated, The Walking … Read more
News Roundup #9: National Kidney Day, Black blood donor follow up, bone marrow heroism
Hello there newshounds! We’ve got another roundup with plenty for you to sniff at. National Kidney Month in U.S. is March, and World Kidney Day was March 8 And we have some related links, since kidney health is directly related to transplantation. Here’s the National Kidney Foundation World Kidney Day page. The Centers for Disease … Read more
UK public engagement on transplantation
Here is a fresh video of a fascinating discussion that took place last night in London entitled Heart to Heart. There is some talk of Christiaan Barnard, the doctor to perform the world’s first successful human heart transplant, and placing the development–or hindrance–of transplantation in socio-historical context. While the main portion of the first video … Read more
Dutch deceased donor dearth: More interesting research out of the Netherlands
Here at TransplantInformers, we recently provided a translation of the Dutch press release on research which surveyed surviving family members of potential deceased donors and motivations behind next-of-kin deceased organ donation consent or refusal. The active research coming out on this topic in the Netherlands doesn’t stop there. Nichon Jansen-Frazer, from the Dutch Transplant Foundation … Read more
Newsbrief in translation: Dutch deceased donor dearth
Last Thursday a study was released in the Netherlands on the decision making process for surviving relatives in granting consent for deceased organ donation. There is a small story on it in English. For more, here is my translation/adaptation from the original Dutch press release from Utrecht University: Research on the organ donation decision making … Read more
TransplantInformers Book Club: Donor by Ken McClure
Lo, many years ago, I was an English minor in college. Hence, I take great pleasure in reading works of fiction in a collective setting, being able to discuss and develop ideas about a text. TransplantInformers is surely about real world practice in donor outreach and education. However, we cannot deny that fictional narratives affect … Read more
