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Countries Make Push To Increase Eye Donors
Original Source By BINA VENKATARAMAN Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the thousands of people waiting for transplants there. In…
Author: The New York Times
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Int’l organisations help upgrade VNIO
The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…
Author: VOV News
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City Lead on Child Eye Care
DOCTORS at Liverpool’s Alder Hey joined the fight against childhood blindness. As research shows that one child goes blind every minute somewhere in the world, eye specialists have offered to share their expertise. They have teamed up with the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) to launch…
Author: Liverpool Echo
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O’Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother’s reaction especially left an impression after O’Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
Author: The Courier Mail (Australia)
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It’s All Downhill From 38: Why Ageing Is Not Just for the Old
A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face Nora Dodd, patient at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing at St James’s Hospital, Dublin with clinical nurse managers Joan Garcia and Ray Donnelly. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill By Paul Cullen How…
Author: The Irish Times
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Alameda County Health Clinic Network for Neediest
Karen Gersten-Rothenberg, director of Havenscourt Health Center, talks with Carlos Aguilar and his mother. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle By Stephanie M. Lee Getting blood drawn should have been an easy part of Selesi Alatini’s checkup. But on this day, the nurses at Havenscourt Health…
Author: San Francisco Chronicle
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Economy forcing many seniors to cut on health care
by Judith Graham They are splitting pills or deciding not to refill prescriptions. They’re missing doctors’ appointments, skipping needed dental work, canceling home-care services. As the economy founders, Chicago’s seniors are cutting back wherever they can, and health care is high on the list of…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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Real Life: The key to long life
Original Source The TILDA study is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. The Irish population is getting older at an unprecedented rate, and now a new 10-year study is aiming to make Ireland the best place in the world…
Author: Irish Independent - Supplement
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Audacious Philanthropy
Image: Christopher Corr / Getty Images By Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United…
Author: Harvard Business Review
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Curing Violence Starts at the Community Level
Photo: Flickr via MediaPlanet By Emily Morrow David* was a model eighth-grader. He had exemplary grades, a near perfect attendance record and scored well on all his state exams. Then, he made his first suicide threat. He was hospitalized for a day or so, but…
Author: Mediaplanet