Transplants

March 19, 2019

The New York Daily News featured six heroic women who battle cystic fibrosis daily. These six friends share several special bonds, the two most notable being their shared disease and the survival of double lung transplants. This inspirational group met while searching online for CF...

New Podcast: Marc Smolowitz, Director of ‘The Power of Two’

by BEF

Boomer Esiason Foundation, CF Community, CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

In the latest podcast from the Boomer Esiason Foundation, director Marc Smolowitz discusses how “The Power of Two” documentary film is raising awareness of cystic fibrosis and organ donation. “The Power of Two” offers an intimate portrayal of the bond...

National Minority Donor Awareness Day Marks Fifteenth Anniversary on August 1

by BEF

CF Community, CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

August 1 marks the fifteenth anniversary of National Minority Donor Awareness Day, a special day set aside each year to call public attention to the critical need for people of African-American, Hispanic and other minority heritages to register as organ and tissue donors and share...

Teen with CF Educates Multicultural Populations About Organ Donation and Coping with Serious Illness

by BEF

CF Community, CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

Tyler D. Nelson, 17, knows all too well what it is to worry. At just two days old, Tyler was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and is currently waiting for lung and liver transplants at Texas Children’s Hospital. But despite the challenges he faces, Tyler has managed to...

Boomer Urges Donor Registrations in New York State Campaign

by BEF

Boomer Esiason Foundation, CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

The New York Organ Donor Network kicked off National Donate Life Month with a groundbreaking campaign to increase organ donation registrations in the state and help relieve the state’s critical organ donor shortage. The initiative features unprecedented activity at DMVs throughout the region, an enrollment contest...

Irish Woman Receives Groundbreaking Lung Transplant

by BEF

CF Community, CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

A young Irish woman has made medical history after a double world-first operation to cure her lung condition. Becky Jones, 20, who is now out of intensive care following surgery, said: "I can't, for the life of me, remember feeling so well. The world is officially...

Pittsburgh Hospital Leads in Lung Transplants

by BEF

CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

Increased referrals from around the country and surgeons' ability to use donor lungs once considered unsuitable contributed to a record 131 lung transplants at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center last year, officials said Tuesday. The 2010 total was the most among the nation's 66 lung transplant...

Out of Grief Sprouts a Life-Saving Legacy

by BEF

CF News, Transplants

March 19, 2019

You don’t have to be rich, famous or even an adult to leave a memorable legacy that can change lives. Just ask Stacey Oglesby of Lockwood, Mo., whose 15-year-old daughter, Colbey, died in a car accident in 2001. Colbey had told her mother that when she...

Transplants

A Heroic Group of Women Triumphing over Cystic Fibrosis

New Podcast: Marc Smolowitz, Director of ‘The Power of Two’

National Minority Donor Awareness Day Marks Fifteenth Anniversary on August 1

Teen with CF Educates Multicultural Populations About Organ Donation and Coping with Serious Illness

Boomer Urges Donor Registrations in New York State Campaign

Irish Woman Receives Groundbreaking Lung Transplant

Pittsburgh Hospital Leads in Lung Transplants

Out of Grief Sprouts a Life-Saving Legacy

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