organ transplants

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• Physicians Must Treat Transplant Tourists

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  As this article notes, Transplant Tourism can subject patients to very high risk of poor organ matching, unhealthy donors, poor surgical techniques and post-transplant infections that they seek treatment for when returning home from overseas. Do doctors have a moral responsibility to treat them or even provide ...
  1 week ago

• Invention – Growing new organs

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks BrainStuff — Authority: 143
  In this TED video, Anthony Atala talks about the state of the art in growing new organs for people who need them. He talks about the importance and the potential of the research: “Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.” Then he demonstrates the technology that ...
  1 week ago

• Beverly Hills NORML Director Cheryl Shuman testifies on the cruelty of banning medical marijuana patients from transplant lists

  
  NORML Blog — Authority: 467
  Recently the Los Angeles City Council held hearings on the thorny issue of medical marijuana dispensary regulation. For years city officials have abrogated their duty to create sensible regulations for the dispensaries that have proliferated across the Los Angeles basin. The number of dispensaries has ballooned to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Controversial strategies for reducing organ shortages

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 629
  Organ transplants have become a routine part of modern medicine. But transplants also produce a global dilemma. Far more people need hearts, lungs, and kidneys than can get them. Today, were going to explore two controversial strategies for addressing this organ shortage. (Audio available after 5PM EST) Israeli ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Brit Govt could save millions by formally promoting health tourism to India’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 691
  London, Jan. 17 (ANI): The British Government could save tens of millions of pounds and slash the waiting lists if some National Health Service (NHS) patients were treated in India, according to health economists’ calculations. Thousands of patients waiting for operations such as hip replacements and hernia repairs ...
  3 weeks ago

• If you want to know what government health care is like, just look at the organ transplant list

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  While talking to a friend who works in health care, the conversation turned to organ transplants and it struck me; Health care under the federal government will be like the organ transplant program only worse. How is that, you ask? Simple, currently the organ transplant program program evaluates your health and other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Discovery of enzyme activation process could lead to new heart attack treatments

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 587
  INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers at the Indiana University and Stanford University schools of medicine have determined how a "chemical chaperone" does its job in the body, which could lead to a new...
  4 weeks ago

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