As more Americans sought treatment through transplantation and the demand for organs quickly outpaced the supply, it became evident that standards and priorities needed to be established in order to ...
Recommendation 5: Efforts to develop voluntary consensus on non-heart-beating donation practices and protocols should be continued. The 1997 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report recommended specific ...
Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. These reports and cases are part of a global proliferation of the organ trade that started in the late 1980s. It ...
A new report reveals that doctors in Colorado removed dying infants’ hearts from their bodies just minutes after the hearts stopped beating so the organs could be transplanted. While the doctors, who ...
Recommendation 7: Data collection and research should be undertaken to evaluate the impact of non-heart-beating donation on families, care providers, and the public. Further information on the burdens ...
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