Sentences with phrase «organ transplantation only»

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Because the practice of transfusion and of organ transplantation are heavily regulated by medicine (and for good reason), a culture that considers human milk to be another regulated bodily substance can only conceive of milk sharing as an activity that occurs rarely and under medical supervision.

Liver transplantation is the only therapy for end - stage liver disease, but is not available to everyone, is expensive, requires long - term immunosuppression, and comes with a risk that the body may reject the organ.

Therefore, instead of introducing payments or incentives, the authors believe that the number of organs available for transplantation should be increased only by removing all financial disincentives for organ donation.

The grisly facts compiled in this article are not an attempt to derail organ transplantation — an impossible task, given how entrenched the industry is — but knowledge that has been gained from the medical establishment's obsession with recycling the bodies of people who are, in the words of Dr. Michael DeVita of the University of Pittsburgh's Medical Center, only «pretty dead.»

Stanley C. Jordan, MD, medical director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Cedars - Sinai, said the enzyme is the only one that can completely remove organ - rejecting antibodies and allow kidney transplantation to take place.

Moore vividly re-creates the life of this Scottish pioneer, who was noted not only for his innovative surgical techniques but also for his investigations into organ transplantation (he implanted a cock's testicle into a hen's belly) and animal dissection (he carved up a giraffe and several whales).

We have particular expertise in cardiology, including the state's only open heart surgery program; oncology; neurosciences; orthopedics; organ transplantation; pediatrics; psychiatry and diabetes.

Since liver transplantation remains the only chance of a cure for end - stage liver disease, improving transplant organ quality is critical for caring for these patients and will help close the gap between patient need and available organs.

It is doubtful that the Ashley treatment meets the criteria in the Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997), Art 6 which provides: Subject to Art 17 (research on mentally disabled people) and Art 20 (removal of organs for transplantation purposes), an intervention may only be carried out on people who do not have the capacity to consent, for their direct benefit.