Sentences with phrase «about organ transplants»

How about an organ transplant or genetic surgery?

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While he said he hoped his fame as the first organ transplant recipient to win an Olympic medal would «get families talking about organ donation,» he said he never felt any pressure to win to make his ordeal worthwhile.

Bronx State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and Helen Irving, the president and CEO of LiveOnNY, an organ procurement organization, talk to «In Focus» Guest Host Jeanine Ramirez about how it takes far longer to secure an organ transplant in New York than any other state in the country.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

«That resulted in a lot of surgeons feeling that it was safe to transplant an organ that otherwise they would have felt very uncomfortable about.»

Transplanted into a mouse, the human liver buds, about 5 millimeters long, exhibited many functions of the mature organ, such as metabolizing sugars and drugs.

«This study is evidence of the great progress the medical community is making as we continue to learn more about how the body deals with transplanted organs,» says Professor Laurent Castera, EASL Secretary General.

Parker and his colleagues concluded that transplant candidates living in less - populated areas may be more selective about the organ quality because waiting times are relatively short.

This compares with five - year organ survival rates of about 70 percent for heart, kidney and liver transplants.

Pediatric solid organ transplant recipients account for about 3 % of diagnosed pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases in the United States.

And so, you know, we're very interested, as you think about organ transplantation, there's a deficit of donors, and we really rely heavily on patients and trying to get those organs so that we can transplant them into the patients who need them.

The Genetic Opera (R for profanity, sexuality, drug use, graphic violence and gore) Sci - fi horror flick, set in 2056, about an enterprising biotech company which turns from savior to monster during a planetary epidemic when it begins repossessing transplanted organs from patients who can't pay their medical bills.

I didn't see Repo Men (Universal), the satirical sci - fi thriller about a future where organ transplants on credit are next big credit default market and starring Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker are the guys who do the repossessing, though my MSN and Parallax View colleague Kathleen Murphy found is dark fun.

Jennifer Merin: Katell Quillévéré's compelling and poignant character - driven life and death drama is about the immediacy of organ transplant and its emotional impact on all who are brought together by the random circumstances leading up to and following it.

For instance, one of my clients works in the medical transplant field, and she's writing a thriller whose central focus is about an illegally obtained organ.

His immersion experiences into the motorcycle subculture, the organ transplant milieu and in other heretofore un-mined worlds about which he has written books, including robotics, along with the compelling literary techniques he has developed, has helped to create a new paradigm for writing about the world — the «literature of reality» that is creative nonfiction.

When you have and the EGC problem persists, don't feel guilty about it - many humans, faced with autoimmune disease or organ transplants take corticosteroids for their entire life.

arguments that legalisation of such practices will inevitably result in the exploitation by the rich (recipients) of the poor (donors) to their profound disadvantage, qualms about the ethically suspect source of the organs to be transplanted, namely, as here, from executed prisoners; and quaint and idealistic, but arguably antiquated notions that donations are always made altruistically.

It is fascinating and heartening to me that in this day and age when we are unlocking the genome and it is not unrealistic to say that 3D printers might be used to provide organ transplants, that a prehistoric creature this large can exist and we know virtually nothing about it, and that is the technology part of this post.

Bad thing about self - driving cars: way fewer organs for people who need transplants.