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April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST

91,996 waiting for a kidney

16,098 waiting for a liver

1,269 waiting for a pancreas

2,153 waiting for a Kidney-Pancreas

3,172 waiting for a heart

1,632 waiting for a lung

52 waiting for a heart-lung

278 waiting for small bowel

One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives

One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Film centers on Pittsburgh woman's creation of ballet
By Mark Kanny, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

A film about the making of Maria Caruso's 2010 ballet "Heart (function vs. emotion)" is a finalist in the Donate Life Film Festival, in Hollywood. The festival starts Wednesday, when the film will be viewable online at www.donatelifehollywood.org. Winners will be screened at the festival.

Former Pittsburgher David Urbanic's film "Function vs. Emotion" traces Caruso's creation of the ballet, which was inspired by seeing two heart-transplant operations and spending time with patients with advanced heart disease at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Caruso is founding executive and artistic director of Bodiography Contemporary Ballet and director of the LaRoche College Dance Department.

The Donate Life Film Festival is part of Donate Life America, a nonprofit organization that promotes organ, eye and tissue donation.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

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