In addition, you may want to consider becoming an organ and tissue donor.

Make the commitment Decide to be an organ and tissue donor.

Also, more than 60 grafts may be obtained from a single tissue donor.

A hand transplant depends on public appeals for organ and tissue donors.

Total body donation generally is not an option if you choose to be an organ and tissue donor.

Being an organ or tissue donor is still a safe, generous and commendable act.

The alternative, performing an analysis on primary cells from multiple tissue donors, does not have this advantage.

Can I be an organ and tissue donor and also donate my body to medical science?

They are more akin to organ and tissue donors."

Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people.

But using the tests to select an embryo as a tissue donor raises a host of new ethical questions.

"They had to wait to grow skin grafts, and find a tissue donor for some of the dermal work.

The most important thing to do is to sign up as an organ and tissue donor in your state's donor registry.

Indicate your intent to be an organ and tissue donor on your driver's license.

Three patients died in the ICU prior to brain death determination and became tissue donors.

Because any transplant depends on public appeals for organ and tissue donors, a recipient is obligated to aid such a procedure's success.

The person's antigen pattern is kept on file in a tissue donor bank and checked to see if it matches anyone needing a transplant.

Become a Hospital Campaign Partner and help spread the word on the critical need for organ and tissue donors.

I'm one of the scaredy-cats who never checked the organ donation box or filled out the organ and tissue donor card.

The final page will say; Donor Status: Yes, you are a registered organ and tissue donor.

In September 1999, it proposed new rules to require careful screening of tissue donors and testing of donated tissue.

A person who wishes to be a possible tissue donor (such as a bone marrow donor) generally has a tissue type test.

It is a database of residents who wish to be organ and tissue donors that is maintained by the Department of State.

She said some members felt that only blood, organ and tissue donors should be subject to mandatory testing for infection with the AIDS virus.

Its operators had wanted test subjects and tissue donors, and no one could have had any illusions as to what would have happened to those subjects.