More than 630 West Australians offered the gift of improved mobility and wellbeing to other Australians last year, with generous bone and tissue donations to PlusLife. PlusLife Managing Director Anne Cowie said hundreds of Australians had benefited from the selfless donations of bone and tissue in the past year and, this Australia Day, urged the …
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PlusLife, WA’s bone and tissue bank, has welcomed four new members to its Board of Directors after its Annual General Meeting last night. PlusLife managing director Anne Cowie said the appointments provided a wealth of knowledge and new expertise, complementing the existing leadership team. “We welcome our new cohort of directors to the PlusLife Board …
Coolbinia teenager Chloe Bettane is embracing a new lease on life – thanks to an anonymous bone donor who helped save her the trauma of a leg amputation. After a harrowing year, the 17-year-old is now preparing to embark on an exciting overseas adventure in Israel – a trip that may not have been possible …
Byford teenager Angus Hollington knows only too well the importance of bone and tissue donation. The 15-year-old was spared the trauma of a leg amputation thanks to an anonymous bone donor, whose selfless gift effectively saved Angus’s limb. At the tender age of 11, Angus was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer that …
Hunchback and in crippling pain, Bernadine Radice was facing the prospect of living the rest of her life in agony until life-changing surgery 18 months ago. The 32-year-old Pickering Brook woman has her surgeon to thank for corrective surgery that reduced the chronic curvature of her spine – and four people who donated their hip …
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Keen dancer Bianca Valenti is thankful for two anonymous bone donors whose gifts have allowed her to dance again. The 12-year-old Thornlie girl was diagnosed with a large aneurysmal bone cyst on her right femur in March 2017, after years of suffering constant and excruciating leg pain. Aneurysmal bone cysts are benign bone lesions that …
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A new era has begun for PlusLife, Western Australia’s only bone and tissue bank, with the official opening of its new $10 million new headquarters in Midland today. The new facility was unveiled by Midland MLA Michelle Roberts this morning in a special ceremony involving recipients of bone and tissue donations, their relatives, donor families, …
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Three long-serving directors of the PlusLife board have stepped down from office bearing roles after more than 42 years of collective service to the bone and tissue donation cause. Retired accountant Donal O’Doherty who served on the PlusLife board for 18 years, including as treasurer, has resigned as a board director. Retired microbiologist and philanthropist …
PlusLife’s new state-of-the-art bone and tissue bank in Midland has been crowned Western Australia’s best industrial building in the Master Builders Excellence in Construction Awards. The prestigious award for the Best Industrial Building ($5 million to $10 million) was presented to Balcatta builder PS Structures at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on Saturday night. …
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Staff from WA’s bone and tissue bank, PlusLife, have donated a new bicycle to a young Hamersley girl stricken by cancer as an infant after constructing the bike as part of a team-building development day. The Midland-based team, which manages life-changing bone and tissue donations, built the bike as part of a series of group …
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