Word: transplantation
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...know that the brightest people may achieve wicked results even when they have the best intentions - sometimes BECAUSE they have the best intentions. We live in a world where people sell their kidneys and other body parts for transplant. It is not difficult to imagine humans being cloned or otherwise conjured, sometime soon, for the sole purpose of repairing or perfecting the natural-born extended family of Dr. Faust...
...Beyond the political debate swirling around stem cells, there remains a great deal of scientific skepticism. Will stem cells help us understand the course of cellular development and differentiation? Could we develop stem cells for transplant that did not set off an autoimmune attack from their new host? Some day in the future, could scientists use stem cells to eliminate the need for human subjects in drug tests...
...procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure. He had an 80 percent chance of dying within 30 days...
Fortunately, provisions of the 1996 federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act had gone into effect not long before the transplant. The law required any company that employed Hunter to provide coverage in spite of his pre-existing condition. When Hunter signed on as a vending-machine repairman with Cromer Food Services, outside Anderson, S.C., full medical benefits came with the job--no questions asked...
Meanwhile, the Kennedy-Edwards bill would allow trial lawyers to influence these decisions while dramatically driving up costs. As a former heart and lung transplant surgeon, I'm fully aware of just how critically important it is for doctors to make medical decisions and for health care costs to remain affordable...