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	Organ Donation

killer_bunny

7-17-2007 6:45 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b17b7d78-89c1-4a39-aabf-a1583e218564/35D665A7-E2DF-4996-B937-271143E45A95/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6902519.stm?dynamic_vote=ON" href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6902519.stm?dynamic_vote=ON" style="font-size: 11px;">newsvote.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6902519.stm?dynamic_vote=ON"><FONT size="2"><B>Everyone should be seen as a potential organ donor on their death unless they expressly request not to be, England's chief medical officer says.</B>
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<FONT size="2">Sir Liam Donaldson wants a system of "presumed consent" to be introduced in England to tackle organ shortages. His Scottish counterpart rejected the move.
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<FONT size="2">One person a day dies after failing to find a suitable donor, data suggests.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6902519.stm?dynamic_vote=ON"><FONT size="2">Only 20% of the population - or 13 million - are on the register, despite the fact that surveys showed that as many as 70% of people wanted to donate their organs after death. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6902519.stm?dynamic_vote=ON"><FONT size="2">Because so many people die in a manner which makes them unsuitable donors, the pool of potential donors must be substantially larger than the numbers waiting for organs - currently nearly 8,400.
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<FONT size="2">Donation rates have almost doubled there to 35 people per 1m since a system of presumed consent was introduced in 1990.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35D665A7-E2DF-4996-B937-271143E45A95/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>