Yes. The federal "Required Request" Act of 1986 requires all hospitals, upon death of a potential donor, to offer the familly the option of organ donation.

The Office of the Federal Register's Public Laws is a good place to research, or sign up for email notification of, recently enacted laws. New laws can be further researched on the Thomas web site at the Library of Congress. Thomas has the complete text of laws from the most recent Congress back to the 101st Congress (1989-1990). You can find summary and status information, but not the full text, back to the 93rd Congress. (1973-1974). See similar questions...

Nevada law makes it unlawful for any person to sell, distribute or offer to sell cigarettes, cigarette paper and tobacco of any description or products made from tobacco to any child under age of 18 years. A separate Nevada law limits cigarette vending machines to areas where minors are not allowed and does not allow vending machines to mix tobacco products with any non-tobacco products. See similar questions...

Organ (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and pancreas) donation can only be done on a donor who has been declared brain dead but whose other organs are kept functioning by sophisticated hospital machinery. Because brain death is not a common occurrence, viable organ donors are rare. Tissue donation (eyes, bone, skin, veins, heart valves, tendons, etc.) can occur even after the heart has ceased beating. Most deaths are potential tissue donors (depending on a medical, social history, etc.). See similar questions...

After a person has died, transplantable organs and tissue can be donated to help the lives of individuals in need. See similar questions...

If you would like more information about organ and tissue donation and transplantation, please call the New England Organ Bank at (800) 446-6362. You can also visit the website of the United Network for Organ Sharing at www.unos.org This site contains up-to-date statistical information, and links to government agencies and other transplant-related organizations. See similar questions...

There are no firm age limits to be a donor. Medical staff evaluates each potential donor for suitability. Life Connection of Ohio has had donors in their 70s and 80s. See similar questions...

Organ donation is the gift of ones body parts after death for the purpose of transplantation. organ and tissue donation is the ultimate humanitarian act of charity. See similar questions...

In general, TTB enforces Chapter 52 of the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26 of the United States Code). Chapter 52 of the Internal Revenue Code deals mainly with (1) the Federal excise taxes on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes and (2) other requirements, such as permits required for engaging in business related to the manufacture, importation and other operations involving such products. See similar questions...

Go to http://www.dps.state.ak.us/PermitsLicensing/achp/index.asp, or contact the Permits and Licensing Unit, Alaska State Troopers, 5700 East Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99507, (907) 269-0392. Alaska's sex offender registration program is administered by the Department of Public Safety. Information about the registry, and an on-line, searchable data base of registered sex offenders can be found at http://www.dps.state.ak.us/sorweb/Sorweb. See similar questions...

Contact the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) with questions about Georgia's labor laws. The GDOL can provide you with information useful in the formation and operation of your business enterprise in Georgia. Georgia defers to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for the circulation and enforcement of occupational safety and health regulations. See similar questions...

Most major religions or religious organizations either actively support organ and tissue donation or leave the decision up to the individual. Those in doubt about their religion's views should talk with their faith leaders. Click for more information about religious views on organ donation. See similar questions...

Hospitals notify the Organ Procurement Organization of the impending death of a patient. The OPO staff makes an initial determination about medical disqualifications for organ and tissue donation, and if there are none immediately apparent a trained donation professional goes to the hospital to further evaluate the patient and offer donation to the next of kin if the patient has not already consented to donation through a donor card or through a motor vehicle office. See similar questions...

Minorities suffer end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a very serious life-threatening kidney disease, much more frequently than do whites. Asian Americans are three times more likely than whites to develop ESRD; Hispanics are three times as likely; and blacks are twice as likely as whites to develop ESRD. ESRD is treatable with dialysis but dialysis can result in a poor quality of life for the patient. The preferred treatment of ESRD is kidney transplantation. See similar questions...

AnswerSome diseases of the kidney, heart, lung, pancreas, and liver are found more frequently in racial and ethnic minority populations than in the general population. For example, African Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics are three times more likely than Whites to suffer from end-stage renal disease. Native Americans are four times more likely than Whites to suffer from diabetes. See similar questions...

California's four federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations (OPO) are exclusively responsible for facilitating the process, and only OPOs' authorized staff have access to both the donor and recipient medical information which makes accurate matching possible. Organ recovery and allocation is regulated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. See similar questions...