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...policy for years, according to Thoreson. In the past, the student group has organized awareness raising events around blood drives, said Feldstein, who is also a Crimson editorial editor. The FDA defends the ban as a necessary precaution against sexually transmitted disease. “Although a potential individual donor may practice safe sex, persons who have participated in high-risk behaviors are, as a group, still considered to be at increased risk of transmitting HIV,” according to the FDA’s website. Along with the Red Cross, two organizations—the American Association...
...past, if a donor wanted to give his organ to a family member—but could not due to conflicting blood types or antibodies—the donor’s information would not be saved by any organ transplant agency...
...building on the work of Harvard economists, the New England Organ Bank has set up a database that facilitates kidney exchanges. For instance, if one type-A donor could not give his kidney to an ill type-B brother, and another type-B donor couldn’t give his kidney to an ill type-A sister, the two families might swap organs under the new system...
Currently there are 60,000 people on the waiting list for kidneys, and last year, 6,000 live donor transplants were conducted along with 8,000 cadaver donations, according to Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Alvin E. Roth, who created this program along with former Harvard Business School research fellows Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver...
...would presume it would be [delayed],” said donor Sidney R. Knafel ’52, who is also a Crimson editor, in an interview last night. “I would think that a new president would want to be there...