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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week agoLetters: House bill needs support in order to save lives
I urge California Sen. Alex Padilla to champion the bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687). This bill represents a rare bipartisan and bicameral opportunity to save 100,000 lives and dramatically reduce taxpayer spending by $37 billion. I donated a kidney to a stranger at some personal risk and expense. The EKDA is a 10-year pilot program for refundable tax credits that will produce more donations for those who have been waiting the longest.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoDeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines': my mother's worrying reliance on AI for health advice
An AI health chatbot provided diagnostic advice and lifestyle recommendations that led a kidney transplant patient to change medications and reduce in-person specialist visits.
fromIrish Independent
2 months agoBrian O'Driscoll 'delighted to catch up' with Michaela Morley as pair reunite to raise funds for kidney patients
Michaela Morley, from Ballyglass, Co Mayo, was only six-years-old when she met O'Driscoll in her Temple Street hospital room in 2011. Hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine, she threw a ball into the Heineken Cup from her hospital bed and O'Driscoll cheered her on. It was a moment that gave a little girl reprieve from the seriousness of her condition and made national headlines.
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fromIrish Independent
6 months ago'I'm forever grateful' - Tipperary farmer gets 'second chance' after receiving kidney from niece who was flowergirl at his wedding three decades ago
Michael Fennessy is profoundly grateful to his goddaughter for offering to donate her kidney, highlighting the strong familial bonds.
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