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      <description>In partnership with Gift of Life Michigan, Central Michigan University is now giving benefits-eligible employees the option to join the statewide organ, eye and tissue registry.</description>
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      <description>Michiganders now have a new way to opt into the organ donor registry.</description>
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      <description>April is Donate Life Month, and Wednesday is Donate Life Day, with a push to encourage organ donations. Secretary of State Ruth Johnson says that since…</description>
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