Facebook Helps Boost Organ Donor Registration, Study Says
A Facebook project has helped significantly increase organ donor registration rates, according to a report published Tuesday in the American Journal of Transplantation. In May 2012, Facebook launched an initiative that allows users to declare themselves as organ donors under a new "Health and Wellness" section. The study found that after one year, 30,818 U.S. residents had registered online to be organ donors, about five times more than rates before the initiative.
- "Facebook Raises the Status of Organ Donation, Study Shows" (Rao, "Capsules," Kaiser Health News, 6/18).