When Senator Nicole Eaton’s husband needed a kidney, she wasn’t a compatible donor. But through paired donation, she was able to give her kidney to someone else to find her husband a match. Now she wants Canadians to know about the options for being a living donor. CBC | Health News
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Sperm Donation 2.0 — An Old Side Hustle With a New Twist
There’s a palm-size centrifuge filled with semen on my kitchen table. It whirs as it spins, isolating and quantifying the volume of sperm in the sample. Five minutes later, it spits out a result, filling a calibrated testing strip with white fluid like a bastardized pregnancy test. The higher the number the fluid reaches, the […]
Lyft will allow riders to round up their fare to make a charitable donation
In the coming weeks, Lyft will introduce a new program called Round Up & Donate, which will allow riders to make a charitable contribution when they take a ride with the service. Riders will be able to opt into the program, which will automatically round up their fare to the nearest whole dollar. The company […]
Quadriplegic Manitoba politician wants presumed consent for organ donation
A Manitoba politician left paralyzed from the neck down by a highway collision is pushing for a law that would make all people in the province an organ donor unless they opted out. CBC | Health News
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gave a giant donation to the election campaign he almost lost
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed he made a $ 1.75 million donation to his party to support its efforts in the 2016 federal election. Turnbull, a former Goldman Sachs executive, is a self-made multi-millionaire and the scale of his financial contribution to his party’s re-election efforts after he seized […]
Space-share shipping service Roadie partners with Goodwill for donation delivery
There’s never a bad time to clear out extra stuff and Roadie‘s on-the-way delivery network can help. Through the end of February, first-time Roadie users can get free donation pickup and delivery to a local Goodwill donation center. According to Roadie, more than one billion cubic feet of excess capacity is available in passenger vehicles […]
Emmerdale fans convinced of Andy Sugden return amid £20K donation to Sarah’s cancer fund
HE WAS last seen making a quick escape from the village after he was wrongly accused of shooting Lawrence White in Emmerdale. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed