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ACCORD
ACCORD is a newsletter from the Australian Coordinating Committee on Organ
Registries and Donation. For more information contact the ACCORD Secretariat
Michael McBride at 02 816 0585 or Anne Coles at 02 816 0593 also e-mail
MMCBR@doh.health.NSW.gov.au or fax at 02 816 0243.
The Biliary Tree
The Biliary Tree is published by the Children's
Liver Alliance and is available over the Internet at http://livertx.org.
Donor Family Connection
(at National Donor Family Council web site)
The Electronic Kidney
The Electronic Kidney is the online newsletter of the National
Kidney Foundation (USA) and is available on the web at http://www.kidney.org/general/eleckid/.
Family Focus
Family Focus is a newsleter published by the National Kidney foundation about
parenting with (or with kids who have) kidney disease. For information or to get
a subscription call 1-800-622-9010.
Focus
Focus is a newsletter for Canadian liver transplant recipients. Published
by the London Health Sciences Center Multi-Organ Transplant Service. Please
see the web page at: http://www.lhsc.on.ca/transplant/focus.htm.
For Those Who Give and Grieve
A newsletter for donor families, published by the National Kidney Foundation.
See details at http://www.transweb.org/people/donors/resource/give_grieve.html.
Fresh Air Newsletter
Fresh Air Newsletter is published by the
Ohio branch of Second Wind. "It is dedicated to the support and education
of lung transplant candidates, recipients, their family members and friends.
It includes articles from, about, and of interest to this group." More information
and a condensed issue of Fresh Air is available on the web at http://www.arthouse.com/secondwind/ohio/freshair.html.
Gift of Life Newsletter
Gift of life news is a newsletter published by the Gift of Life foundation
in an effort to increase public awarenss concering organ donation, help solve
serious organ donor shortage, and spred the gift of life to others.Visit there
web page at http://www.giftoflifefoundation.org
Lifecare Journal
Lifecare Journal is a quarterly newsletter for transplant candidates, recipients,
families and friends. It is available over the Web at http://linkdirect.com/hmi/table.htm.
If you wish to subscribe, send your mailing (not email) address to: brgu27a@prodigy.com
or call Maureen Matthews at 1-800-927- 4643. You need not be an HMI customer
to receive Lifecare Journal.
Liver Bulletin
The Liver Bulletin is a quarterly publication of the liver
transplant program at Stanford University and is available on the web
at http://www-med.stanford.edu/shs/txp/livertxp/Liver%20Bulletin/LiverBulletin.Main.html.
LiverLine
LiverLine is the official newsletter of the Friends of the Liver Transplant
Unit (Australia)- a Branch of the Austin and Repatriation Medical Auxiliary.
For more information please contact Ray Brown at 9743-3804
Liver
Lifeline
A newsletter for the membership of the The Liver Support Group, Inc., an Australian
support group.
The Liver Lifeline Editor:
John Miller
02 4934 2708
johnjan@mpx.com.au
The
Liver Times
Is a monthly newsletter written by the Tri-State Liver Transplant Support Group
was started by 6 liver transplant patients who saw th need for a network of
support between pre and post transplant patients.
The Marrow Messenger
A annual newsletter to all people on the National Marrow Donor Program Registry.
Donor Center Members of the
National Marrow Donor Program
P.O. Box 18300
Minneapolis, MN 55413-1762
Miracle Messenger
A newsletter for the transplant community. Membership dues are $12 for
12 monthly issues. Miracle Messenger is published by the Organ Transplant
Support, Inc.
Organ Transplant Support, Inc.
P.O. Box 471
Naperville, Illinios 60566-0471
Phone: (708) 527-8640
Fax: (708) 527-8682
New Horizons
New Horizons is a regular newsletter of Liasons for Life, a regional support
and education group for transplant recipients, family members and other
interested persons. For more information
liasons for Life
c/o Delaware Valley Transplant Program
2000 Hamilton Street
Philadelphia, Pa 19130-3813
Phone: (215)963-0482
National Transplant News
NTN is a lively newslatter designed to keep you up to date with everything
that's happening in the transplatn world, Tecent issues have covered a wide
variety of topics in an entertaining and readable way. For your issue write
to:
NTN PO box 456 Richmond, Surrey. Tw9 1ZG or telephone their Hotline on: 081
332 2247
Organ Transplant Fund Newsletter
Please see the website at http://www.otf.org
for more information.
OTF Newsletter
1102 Brookfield Suite 202
Memphis, TN 38119
Phone: 1-800-489-3868 (901) 684-1697
Fax: (901) 684-1128
e-mail: otfnatl@aol.com
The Phoenix
The Phoenix is the newsletter of the University of Texas Medical School's
Division of Immunology & Transplantation. Please see the web page at
http://surgery.uth.tmc.edu/organ_transplant/phoenixtoc.html
for further information.
The Philly ORGANizer
The Philly ORGANizer is the newsletter of TRIO Philadelphia. It's available
online at http://www.transweb.org/support/trio_philly/.
Procure!
Procure! is an eight-page monthly newsletter that focuses on successful
communication strategies for minority organ donation. Recently expanded
to include information from and about African Americans, Hispanics, and
Asians; useful statistics and analyses, and monthly advice on effective
in-services. It is published by the Witherspoon Marketing Group and a one-year
subscription costs $198.
Witherspoon Marketing Group
Multicultural Organ Donor Programs and Publications
601 S. LaSalle, Suite 640
Chicago, IL 60605
USA
phone: (312) 360-9540
fax: (312) 360-9543
email: wmarketing@aol.com
Progress
is a newsletter of the American
Liver Foundation for more information send e-mail to info@liverfoundation.org
Progress Notes
Progress Notes is the newsletter of the Partnership
for Organ Donation, and is available on the web at: http://www.transweb.org/partnership/pnarch.html
Retinal Cell Transplant Newsletter
The Retinal Cell Transplant Newsletter is published by Columbia
University's Department of Ophthamology and is available on the web
at http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/eye/retina/news062.html.
Stony Brook Transplant Newsletter
The Transplant Newsletter is published quarterly by Transplantation Services,
University Hospital and Medical Center, State University of New York, at
Stony Brook, New York. It is available online at http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/transplant/txnews1/contents.htm.
Talking It Over
Talking It Over is a newsletter which gives transplant recipients an anonymous
forum to discuss issues related to their transplants. People who are either
waiting for or who have already received transplants can submit comments,
stories, and questions. See web page at http://www.transweb.org/people/recips/resources/support/talkingitover
Subscriptions cost $12/yr. Write to:
TRC (Transplant Recipient Communictions)
P.O. Box 134
Ashland, MA 01721
The Transplant Chronicles
The National Kidney Foundation publishes
and distributes the Chronicles free of charge. It is published quarterly, with
the possibility of having six issues per year sometime in the future. To receive
the Chronicles, call 1-800-622-9010 or (212) 889-2210.
The Transplant Forum
A report on issues of importance to transplant teams provided as an educational
service by the support of Roche Pharmaceuticals from New Jersey.
The Transplant News
The Transplant News is a twice-monthly 8-page newsletter providing up-to-the-minute
information on developments in organ, tissue, eye, and bone marrow procurement
and transplantation. Editor and publisher: Jim Warren. See web page at
http://www.trannews.com. The cost
of a subscription is $291/year if you send your payment with your subscription
request, $311 if you want to be billed. A two-year subscription is $542.
D.C. subscribers add 6% sales tax. Subscribers outside the U.S. add $60
for airmail delivery. To subscribe:
Transplant News
2030 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 201
Arlington, Virginia 22201
USA
Phone: (703) 525-4262
Toll Free: 1-800-689-4262
Fax: (703) 525-3992
E-mail: trannews@aol.com
Transplant Pharmacy Newsletter
The Transplant Pharmacy Newsletter is a quarterly publication intended
for transplant pharmacy professionals. Editor: Kathleen D. Lake, Pharm.D.,
BCPS.
Phone: (612) 863-3620
Transplant Recipients International Organization newsletters
TRIO - New England
Newsletter
TRIO - Nation's Capital
Area Newsletter
TRIO - Chicago Newsletter
Transplant-Texas!
Transplant-Texas! is the newsletter of the Texas Transplantation Society and is
available on the web at http://www.texmed.org/socs/soclist/ttrs/trante.htm.
Tri-alogue
A newsletter for organ and tissue recipients, donor families and professionals
published by Donor
Alliance. Available at 1-888-868-4747 .
TROM Topics
TROM Topics is the newsletter of Transplant
Recipients Organization of Minnesota (TROM). See web page at http://www.sadiehawkins.com/topics.htm.
UpBeat
UpBeat is a monthly newsletter for heart transplant recipients, edited
by heart transplant recipient Don Marshall. (Note: you can see the November
1995 issue on the web at http://www.rust.net/~bmarsh/upbt9511.htm)
UpBeat is distributed to people in all 50 states of the U.S. and in five
other countries (so far!). Subscriptions cost $15 per year. Contact:
Don Marshall
P.O. Box 482
Mathews, VA 23109
USA
email: dmarsh@cris.com
Unos
Unos Update carries news of the transplant community and transplantation to the
community. It is intended for surgeons, physicians, nursed, coordinators, patients,
donor familes and the general public. Subscriptions in the U.S. are free. Readers
overseas must pay $75 per year, payable in U.S. funds drawn in U.S. bank. This
price is subject to change.http://www.unos.org /Newsroom/breaknews_update.htm To subscribe
contact:
Scot Helm
1100 Boulders Parkway ,Suite 500
Richmond, VA 23225-8770
USA
email: editors@unos.org
Whispers
Whispers is a quarterly published newsletter created for families who have lost
children from liver disease, pre- and post-transplant. It is published by
Angels Above Us a division of the Children's Liver Alliance. Whispers is free
and will be available soon in Spanish and via the internet.
Last modified:
31 October, 2001