Organ Donation

Follow the links below to find information on organ or tissue donation.

For information on transplants, blood donation or blood transfusion, follow the links to the specific HealthInsite topic pages below.

Reviewed June 2009

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Transplants
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Links to information on all types of transplantation, including bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver and stem cell transplants, and also xenotransplantation.
Blood Donation
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Links to information about donating blood.
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Title:   Medicare Australia
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   Medicare Australia home page
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Organ Donor Register
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   The Australian Organ Donor Register is Australia's only national organ and tissue donor register and serves as a lifeline to the people on those waiting lists.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Media release. National Medical Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority appointed
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Dr Gerry O'Callaghan has been appointed the inaugural National Medical Director of the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Media release. New council on organ and tissue donation reform
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government has announced an Advisory Council to help lift Australia's organ and tissue donation and transplantation rates.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Media release. Organ donation legislation passes Senate
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The passage through the Senate today of the legislation setting up the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority marks a new era of hope for people needing organ transplants.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Media release. Zaidee's rainbow hair net day
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Zaidee's Rainbow Hair Net Day - a day to raise awareness of organ donation among schoolchildren and their families.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Ethical issues
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:   This section of the site contains information about the many ethically significant and complex issues relating to human health and research. AHEC has considered, or is currently considering, a number of these issues. Information on some of these issues, with links to documents produced by AHEC or the NHMRC more broadly, is provided below.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Bone marrow harvest versus peripheral stem cell collection for haemopoietic stem cell donation in healthy donors
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood stem cells are collected from a donor in two ways: either through a bone marrow harvest (direct retrieval of the stem cells from the donor's hip bones, under general anaesthetic) or a peripheral blood stem cell collection (retrieval of stem cells ...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Organ donation
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The Organ Donor Registry in Australia allows people to formally register their wish to donate their organs after they die. Authorised hospital staff may check the register to see if you wish to donate organs or body tissue. Organs and tissue that can be donated include the kidney and liver, heart and lungs, pancreas, skin and corneas.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Organs retained at autopsy: ethical and practical issues
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:   Advice to the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Dr Michael Wooldridge, covering the practical and ethical issues of organs retained at autopsy without permission from next-of-kin.
Date:   Aug 2001
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