Bone marrow donation: why are we looking for male donors?
Bone marrow donations are used to cure people who have serious blood diseases. THE ESSENTIAL Essential to life, bone marrow ...
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6 good reasons to donate a kidney during your lifetime
Donating a kidney during your lifetime to a loved one who needs it has multiple benefits for the recipient. Here ...
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To save more children, “we need pediatric organ donations”
The Biomedicine Agency warns of the decline in organ donations intended for children. THE ESSENTIAL In France, many babies and ...
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Kidney donors have a higher risk of fractures
Living kidney donors are at greater risk of spinal fractures later. THE ESSENTIAL Kidney donation is done for people with ...
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EFS: “There are 390 blood groups, of which 250 are considered rare”
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) is launching a new week of awareness of rare blood groups. THE ESSENTIAL It is ...
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This hospital holds the world record for kidney transplants… thanks to donations!
Over a 12-month period, the Penn Transplant Institute performed 100 kidney transplants. THE ESSENTIAL The Penn Transplant Institute in the ...
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In the Netherlands, a donor is prosecuted for having given more than 500 times his sperm
Faced with the risk of psychological disorders, incest and consanguinity, Dutch law limits the number of sperm donations to 25. ...
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Nearly 4 million euros collected for the fight against AIDS
While in France around 190,000 people are living with HIV, Sidaction has raised just over 3.9 million euros in pledges. ...
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Brain donation: why is it so important for researchers?
Scientists need brain donations to progress in their research, as the Vaincre Alzheimer Foundation reminds us during Brain Week. THE ...
Read moreEgg donation: “hypocritical France”
"Blood donation is urgent". The slogan hammered out at the moment by the French Blood Establishment could just as well ...
Read moreDonations: the French even more generous in 2015
The precariousness increases, the generosity of the French too. Donations increased by 4% in 2015. Between 4.4 and 4.6 billion ...
Read moreConservation of oocytes: 6 out of 10 French people say no to legalization
It is a new form of life insurance that we present today The Parisian. It is subscribed neither for his ...
Read moreThe generous French but not for all
Generous, but selective. While the three strokes of the kindness day just rang, a poll conducted by Ipsos for Psychologies ...
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For the first time, a mother donated one of her daughter’s tendons
A 50-year-old gave her patellar tendon to her daughter, a young athlete, to repair her new ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. ...
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For the first time, a baby receives a bowel transplant in Spain
This transplant was carried out thanks to a donation in asystole. The transplanted intestine came from a person at the ...
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Hunters threatened with death when they wanted to make a donation against cancer
The League Against Cancer has decided to give up a donation of 2,000 euros from an association of hunters, the ...
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Bone marrow donation: the Biomedicine Agency recruits 20,000 young people
This Monday, March 22, the Biomedicine Agency is launching a new campaign and is looking for 20,000 bone marrow donors ...
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Research on Alzheimer’s: what if you made a “brain donation”?
Brain donation is the removal of the brain after death, whether the organ comes from people with neurocognitive diseases or ...
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Cancer: concerned about their purchasing power, the French give less
The League Against Cancer is concerned about the significant drop in donations reaching it and the impact this will have ...
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Paris: why does the Saint-Antoine hospital collect your stool donations for remuneration?
The Saint-Antoine hospital (Paris) has launched a surprising appeal for stool donations against a remuneration of 50 euros per donation. ...
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HIV: the opening of blood donation to homosexuals did not increase the risk of transmission
The opening of blood donation to homosexual men does not increase the risk of HIV transmission by transfusion, even if ...
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Pasteurdon: donating to research to enable medicine to treat us better
The 12th Pasteurdon began on Wednesday October 10. Here are some good reasons to respond to this fundraising campaign for ...
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World Blood Donor Day: “the French do not renew their approach enough”
On this Thursday, June 14, World Blood Donor Day raises public awareness of the importance of blood donation in France, ...
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Gamete donation: 3,000 infertile couples pending
While more than 3000 new couples are registered to benefit from a donation, the Biomedicine Agency wishes to recruit 900 ...
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Sperm donation: family complaint for “deception on the merchandise”
In Canada, families who have appealed for gamete donation are complaining. The sperm came from a donor with a history ...
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Sidaction: the youtubers have been able to mobilize donors
The 22nd edition of Sidaction ended on a positive note: pledges total just over 4 million euros.The fight against AIDS ...
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Breast milk: France lacks donors
Despite 78,000 liters collected in 2014, France lacks breast milk to offer premature babies. The situation is critical at the ...
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Krabbe disease: Facebook raises 50,000 euros to treat Ayden
Launched two weeks ago, an appeal for donations has raised a sum that should allow little Ayden, 18 months, to ...
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Telethon 2015: a harvest of over 80 million euros
This year again, the Telethon raised more than 80 million donations. A real ray of hope for all the families ...
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Sperm donor: a right to anonymity and a moral duty
The fight of a lawyer born by sperm donation, to learn more about her biological father, has rekindled the debate ...
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