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Angel Cove Organ Donation Awareness Shop is an avid supporter of Organ Donation and Transplant awareness and donates 3% of all its profits to the Laurie Ferber Fund at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Transplant Center.

About the Laurie Ferber Transplant Fund

The Laurie Ferber Transplant Fund benefits heart and lung transplant patients at UW Hospital and Clinics by defraying the cost of accommodations, travel and other unexpected expenses. This fund was established several years ago in honor of a lung transplant recipient to address to special needs of Heart and Lung Transplant recipients and their families. The money donated to this fund has been used in the past to provide a computer with internet access to patients who are hospitalized, support of cardiopulmonary transplant patient events, and other general needs of our patients and their families. Your gift will support our continuing effort to provide funding for the special requests of heart and lung transplant recipients and their families. One hundrea percent (100%) of the donations go directly back to the patients.

Transplant at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is one of the world's foremost organ transplant programs. UW Health physicians are recognized experts in their field, providing care to patients in our heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, intestine, islet cell and pediatric transplant programs.

We are a member of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Coalition on Donation, the United Network for Organ Sharing, and the Wisconsin Coalition on Donation.

If It Hurts, Stop!

Why is it that some people are highly stubborn and don't know what is good for them?

Recently, we had a bit of a scare when my husband, a double-lung transplant recipient, told me that he was feeling tightness in his chest. He requested that I change the furnace filter thinking something was in the air duct and causing breathing problems for him.

It wasn't like he was gasping for air nor did his spirometry show any signs of distress. Rather it was just a feeling that was uncomfortable and he couldn't shake it.

After a day, we linked the problem to his Colistin inhalation treatment. After his transplant, he was put on Colistin for 10-days out of every month to ensure that any "bugs" in his nasal cavity would not infect his new lungs. However, my wonderful husband failed to tell me that although Colistin worked great with his old CF lungs, his new lungs have had a problem with tightness caused by the medication for the full 4 years after his transplant.

Excuse me? He continues to inhale this medication every month even though it caused tightness in his chest from the beginning? Why in the world would anyone continue a medication that has such a side effect?

As it turns out, the tightness has been getting worse over the years and he thought it was just a side effect he had to live with. That is plain wrong - no one should ever live with such a side effect and should discuss it with their doctor immediately.

Needless to say, he is in such talks with his transplant clinic and they are finding an alternate drug to keep him healthy and strong. He has discontinued the Colistin and can breathe once again...

Missing Info on Drugs Can Hurt You

What You Don't Know About a Drug Can Hurt You
Untold Numbers of Clinical-Trial Results Go Unpublished; Those That Are Made Public Can't Always Be Believed

There's a common assumption that when a drug makes it to market, it has run a rigorous gantlet of testing and proper disclosure. Testing, yes. Disclosure -- not necessarily.

Findings from many clinical studies assessing prescription drugs never see light of day. That skews the basic scientific record that every patient, physician and researcher needs to judge whether treatments cause more harm than good. There is no easy way to discover... [Read Full Article]

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