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Housecall for Health: Tom Brady Leads Kidney Search

An NFL star on his way to his 5th Super Bowl has to put in plenty of effort on the field.  But this star is also putting in a lot of effort off the field to help the life of someone else.

FOX’s Colleen Cappon reports in today’s “Housecall for Health”:

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is on a mission, not just to win the Super Bowl, but to find a kidney. His lifetime mentor and coach, Tom Martinez, is in need of a kidney transplant, and Brady’s Facebook appeal has raised the profile of Martinez’s search.

He has not yet found a match, but, meanwhile, could provide a lifeline for one of the other 110,000 patients currently waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S.

Housecall for Health, I’m Colleen Cappon, FOX News Radio.

One Comment

  1. LIFESHARERS

    January 30, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Your story about Tom Brady, Tom Martinez and Organ Donation highlighted the tragic shortage of human organs for transplant operations.

    Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. Everyone who is willing to receive should be willing to give.

    Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers. LifeSharers is a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die. Membership is free at http://www.lifesharers.org or by calling
    1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition. LifeSharers has over 14,900 members as of this writing.