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Children’s Organ Transplant Association® The Trusted Leader Supporting Families … For a Lifetime
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION Kim Carter Parker (kim@cota.org/217.494.6110) March is National Kidney Month: An Ohio Teen is College Shopping & Considering a Career in Medicine Thanks to a New Kidney from Her Mom’s Best Friend March 1, 2023 — March is National Kidney Month, which is a month-long, awareness-raising grassroots effort to spread the word across the country about the importance of kidney health. March 9th will be celebrated this year as World Kidney Day, which highlights the importance of preventive interventions to avert the onset and progression of kidney disease. An Ohio family knows all too well the life-saving difference a healthy kidney can make and…
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Plane Crash Strands Unlikely Pair in Thrilling Tale of Survival, Swamped!
Two wildly different teens are flung together amid dire circumstances in the fast-paced action-adventure story Swamped! from veteran journalist and bestselling author Ken Wells, and his writer and comedian niece Hillary Wells. Swamped! readers are first introduced to Jack Cane Landry — Louisiana homeboy and self-professed swamp rat — who, having snagged a job for a high-end swamp tour company, wants to ditch school and become a fulltime guide. Poised, attractive and well-traveled, Olivia FitzGerald loves her private New York City prep school and is Harvard bound. When Olivia and her philanthropist father jet in for a tour of Louisiana’s Great Atchafalaya Swamp that Jack will help guide, destinies and cultures collide, and…
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3D Printer That Replicates Human Organs ‘Not That Far-Fetched’
Author Stephen Steele continues the epic adventures of botanist and broke rancher Cyd Seeley and her partner, recovering drug addict Dr. Alex Farmer, in The Organ Grinder Factor, Book two in Steele’s action suspense thriller trilogy, The Trouble with Miracles. Drawing upon real-world events, The Organ Grinder Factor takes readers from the unspeakable horrors of child slavery in Africa to today’s turmoil in the Middle East. As the story begins, Alex and Cyd are in desperate search of a place to safely grow their Cannastar, a miracle cure for viruses that Big Pharm has made illegal. They shipwreck off the west coast of Africa and wash ashore in the drug and war-torn nation of Guinea-Bissau. Forced…
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