Article: Driver license will include organ donor status in Texas

Article: Sharing the gift of life: Your role in raising organ ...
Healthcare Executive;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... specific procedures and policies for working with OPOs," says Patrick J. Giordano, CHE, chief executive officer of the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance in San Antonio. "Such policies should address the importance of early referral of potential organ donors ...

Article: Minister highlights advantages of NHS Organ Donor ...
M2 Presswire;  November 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Minister highlights advantages of NHS Organ Donor Register(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... Card The importance of joining the NHS Organ Donor Register was demonstrated today, as ... 75 million people have joined the NHS Organ Donor Register and the Government has pledged ...

Article: GOV. BLUNT, REVENUE DEPARTMENT UNVEIL NEW LICENSE SHOWCASING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 25, 2008 ;     697 words ... ... Missourians will have the option to include an organ donor symbol on their driver or non-driver ... conjunction with the effective date of the new Organ Donor First-Person Consent law signed by ... Every new donor matters. Every new organ donor has the potential to save a life ...

Article: Designing an educational strategy for increasing organ ...
Progress in Transplantation;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 50-70 years of age) have lower organ donor registration rates than younger adults ... were used to identify barriers to organ donor registration and information needs of ... Focus groups show similar barriers to organ donor registration and indicate that brochures ...

Article: National student competition promotes organ donor ...
University Wire;  March 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Iowa -- With high hopes of spreading organ donor awareness across campus, Iowa State ... students will participate in the National Organ Donor Awareness Competition, or NODAC, Thursday ... donation, and the process of becoming an organ donor on college campuses, said Cindy Christen ...

Article: Effects of information, education, and communication training ...
Progress in Transplantation;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... serve as gatekeepers in the quest to fill organ donor registries. Most people who join organ donor registries do so through their local driver ... resulting in more people joining DMV-based organ donor registries. Setting-DMV offices in 8 ...

Article: National Organ Donor Day planned to increase public ...
PR Newswire;  February 28, 1984 ;     700+ words ... ... designated March 8, 1984, as National Organ Donor Day in the United States. "The shortage ... have one million more Americans sign organ donor cards in 1984," he said. "We are ... get one." The highlight of National Organ Donor Day will be a "blitz" on the U.S ...