The 7.30 Report on ABC [Australia] last Wednesday night featured an interview with Thérèse Rein, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, the Rt Hon Kevin Rudd MP. The interview was conducted by Kerry O'Brien. Whilst not specifically about...
Topics: Biography, Career change, Meditations, paraplegia, Perceptions, Thérèse Rein

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Stan Whippy Ritova, titled Ratu Viliame Ritova (1935-2009) was a noted journalist in Australia and in his home nation of Fiji. He stood for the welfare and rights of kidney patients in Fiji. Paradoxically, the shortage of facilities in his...
Topics: dialysis, Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, Great Figures in Transplant / Non-Transplant History, haemodialysis, Health services, henodialysis, Medical services, Obituaries, Ratu Viliame Ritova, Stan Whippy Ritova, Travel, Voreqe Bainimarama

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And as we mark United Nations Day today, here's a googly bowled up in the local media: old kidneys for old folks. I must admit that I hitherto had been under the impression that a donor's age had no real...
Topics: Julie Robotham, kidney transplant, kidney transplantation, renal transplant, renal transplantation

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Local media has this week reported that Australian scientists have developed an improvement in the solution in which donor hearts are transported – making a donor heart viable for up to 14 hours, as against the current situation of 5...
Topics: Health services, heart transplant, heart transplantation, Medical services, organ transplant, organ transplantation, Research, Science, Technology, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

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We’re having a short vacation in the city of Adelaide, capital city of the Australian State of South Australia – 1320 km (820 miles) west of Wollongong. This has given me cause to reflect on the very different (to the...
Topics: Adelaide, Health services, Medical services, Meditations, organ transplant, organ transplantation, Research, South Australia, South Australia Organ Donation Agency, Travel

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