Sentences with phrase «of donor organ»

Such hosts are usually permanently tolerant of donor organ or tissue transplants.

Having a clone would be more like having a baby — though you might be able to talk it out of a donor organ or two when he or she is older.

The recipe for these replacement organs begins with destruction: Wash away the cells of a donor organ with detergent, leaving behind just its spongy, protein support structure.

However, due to the shortage of donor organs there are worrying pressures being exerted for some freedom to take organs from donors without consent» [3].

Several political options are being considered to increase the number of donor organs.

In Western society the population is growing older, the incidence of chronic disabilities which could be treated by stem cell therapy is steadily rising, and the availability of donor organs is not matching the need.

The results had been awaited eagerly, because pigs» physiological resemblance to humans makes them a potential source of donor organs.

If we can demonstrate that it's possible to eradicate HCV from patients who contract the virus from a transplant, this approach could open up access to an entirely new pool of donor organs that are currently being discarded.

She adds that recipients could have a greater choice of donor organs, improving their chances of a good match.

This decision is made more difficult by the lack of donor organs.

Researchers suggest that this liver tissue could be used in place of donor organs during liver transplantation or during the bridge period until a suitable donor is available for patients with acute liver failure.

The operation is not technically difficult, but there is a shortage of donor organs and the bowel is hard to protect from rejection and infection.

Given the critical shortage of donor organs to replace those damaged by accident or disease, it has long been a goal of science to create human organs from stem cells.

Scientists in Japan said Wednesday they had grown human liver tissue from stem cells in a first that holds promise for alleviating the critical shortage of donor organs.

«Islet transplants have been used to successfully treat patients with unstable, high - risk type 1 diabetes, but the procedure has limitations, including a very limited supply of donor organs and challenges in obtaining reliable and consistent islet preparations,» said trial investigator James Shapiro, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program, University of Alberta.

But, what if instead of being discarded, these organs could be «recycled» to help solve the critical shortage of donor organs?

Not exact matches

SightLife, a Seattle - based nonprofit eye bank that extracts corneas from organ donors and distributes them to transplant centers around the world, is one of the largest such facilities in the U.S., with 96 employees and more than $ 14 million in annual revenue.

Similarly, we built tools so millions of people could commit to becoming organ donors to save others after accidents, and registries reported larger boosts in sign ups than ever before.

Chris Klug, founder of the Chris Klug Foundation and affiliated high school and college outreach program Donor Dudes, shows just how personal nonprofit work can get: Klug is the only Olympian to ever medal after having an organ transplant.

Germany's organ donor rate is less than half of what it is in Spain, the leading donor country, according to 2010 figures provided by the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (organ donor rate is less than half of what it is in Spain, the leading donor country, according to 2010 figures provided by the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO).

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

CEO Tim Cook said that the ultimate goal is to help solve the problem of organ donor shortages across the US.

In Japan, for example, if a patient has expressed a written wish to be an organ donor then organs can be taken on medical diagnosis of brain death.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

Dr David W. Evans, cardiologist, formerly of the Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, is one of a number of medical professionals who doubt that all organ donors diagnosed «brain dead» are actually brain dead at all.

«The key question that must be answered by all of us now is: If we allow ourselves to be organ donors, can we be confident that our organs and tissue will be removed following our deaths and in an ethically acceptable manner?»

The key question that must be answered by all of us now is: If we allow ourselves to be organ donors can we be confident that our organs and tissue will be removed following our deaths in an ethically acceptable manner?

These could occur when, in order to increase the availability of organs for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the death of the donor.»

To the contrary, in 1994 research carried out by Nottingham University and the King's Fund concluded that the introduction of assumed consent was unlikely to result in a significant increase in donor organs.

Why doesn't the church plead for people to carry organ - donor cards, instead of wasting time on this?

The growing distance between doctors and patients allows for the expansion of the utilitarian approach that sees patients as organ donors, not individuals in need of care.

However, there is a serious shortage of pediatric organ donors.

This practice would yield not only more donors, but more types of organs as well, since the heart could now be removed from dying, not just dead, patients.

For example, in 1994 the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association issued an opinion holding that it is «ethically permissible» to use «the anencephalic neonate» as an organ donor, even though, as the Council recognized, under current law anencephalic babies are not dead.

And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.

Pope Francis has called organ donation a «testimony of love for our neighbour» as part of a new campaign encouraging churchgoers to sign onto the Donor Register and give blood.

Using these social outlets, ORGANIZE and their network of partners mobilized the army of organ donation advocates to come together on one day for a huge digital donor drive and awareness campaign.

Due to a shortage of organ donors, he continued, only about one - third of those needing livers will receive them.

For example, to condemn lethal organ harvesting, or pre-viability removal of an unborn child from its mother, it is not necessary to claim that the surgeon «must» have intended the foreseen death for the unborn child or the organ donor — as a result of what he did intend for the object of his assault.

With this need in mind, pastors and ethicists organized a day - long conference in mid-April on «Organ and Tissue Donation: Role of the Ministry» to inform pastors about the current need for donor organs and to help them approach the topic of organ donation during bereavement counseOrgan and Tissue Donation: Role of the Ministry» to inform pastors about the current need for donor organs and to help them approach the topic of organ donation during bereavement counseorgan donation during bereavement counseling.

Arthur R. Lillicrop III, of the pastoral counseling center at the Washington Hospital Center (which hosted the conference), told participants that the gap between the number of organ donors and the number of potential recipients is ripe for redress by Christians.

Eddy said he personally knows the impact of Jemima's choice because he received an organ from a donor in 2009.

One example of these occurs «when, in order to increase the availability of organs for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the death of the donor.»

If February 15, 2002 brought a flood of emotions for me, I can only imagine what the day must have felt like for Klug, who was competing less than two years after a life - saving liver transplant, and, fittingly, just one day after the celebration of National Organ Donor Day.

Equally as important is the education of individuals about the benefits of this unique form of organ donation that can be completely life - changing for the many precious recipients of donor milk.

In lieu of flowers, contributions to Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Attn: Linda Lawson, 660 N. Industrial Dr., Elmhurst, IL 60126 appreciated.

Cuomo announced a new executive order directing state agencies to work to make it easier to enroll on the state's Donate Life Registry, the list of organ donors.

«As a proudly registered organ donor, in honor of my late friend Assemblyman James Conte, I urge everyone to sign up to help make a difference in the lives of our fellow New Yorkers,» Flanagan said in a statement.

The wife of ailing former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller has launched a desperate campaign to find him an organ donor, saying he is suffering from end stage kidney disease and needs a transplant to save his life.

Senator David Carlucci said, «Lauren's Law has significantly helped increase the number of registered organ donors in our state, which means thousands waiting on donor lists may get a vital organ sooner.