Organ donation: how many potential organ donors exist? Evaluation of organ donor resources in a metropolis regionOhm, JBrase, RMeyerMoldenhauer, W. HWagner, KIntensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin
Organ recipients and the families of donors and recipients find satisfaction in both the giving and receiving. Someone who receives a new organ or tissue will live a longer and healthier life, or the quality of his life will improve. The family of a donor often feels as if some of the gr...
are unspecialized, but can develop into specialized cells. The earliest stem cells in the human body are those found in the human embryo. The stem cells inside an embryo will eventually give rise to every cell, tissue and organ in the fetus's body. Unlike...
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
It's a step in the right direction, but change will take some time. “In terms of risk profile testing, drugs are most often tested on one or a few human cell models that mostly come from donors of Northern European descent,” said Zaaijer. “Drugs are then tested in a rodent model...
More children than ever are in school, but many are not mastering basic skills. The World Bank estimates that seven in ten students in low- and middle-income countries are living in “learning poverty,” unable to read a simple text by the end of elementary school. ...
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argument, there’s the concept of “demon donors” in the nonprofit world. These are people who want to elevate their brand by donating money linked to practices that conflict with a nonprofit’s stated mission. Demon donors are in it for the positive publicity rather than the greater good....
There are many explanations for this, including concerns about donor quality, prolonged time to get the organ to a center that will accept it, recipient factors, scrutiny over transplant center outcomes that can lead to both decertification and financial penalties, and the increased resources and ...
Parikh underscored that many different tactics will need to work in tandem to address this growing need. "The U.S. population is aging with more comorbidities, making the pool of organ donors smaller," Parikh said. "There are several novel technologies, like machine perfusion of organs, that ...