{"id":23902,"date":"2017-04-10T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/170410110849-htm\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:08:00","slug":"170410110849-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=23902","title":{"rendered":"Organ donation: 10 minutes. 22 people. 54 percent."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this moment, more than 118,000 people in the United States are in need of a lifesaving organ transplant. And 64 percent of them are currently on a waiting list \u2013 to which roughly 1 person is added every 10 minutes \u2013 according to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). That\u2019s 75,868 people in line for a transplant. Unfortunately, only about half of them will actually receive the transplant they need this year. In an effort to encourage more people to register as organ and tissue donors, researchers are tackling the issue from a few different angles \u2013 from advocacy to research to policy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/04\/170410110849.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.sciencedaily.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this moment, more than 118,000 people in the United States are in need of a lifesaving organ transplant. And 64 percent of them are currently on a waiting list \u2013 to which roughly 1 person is added every 10 minutes \u2013 according to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). That\u2019s 75,868 people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[14118,10907,12759,10457,14119],"class_list":["post-23902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-donation","tag-minutes","tag-organ","tag-people","tag-percent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}