Word: transplante
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Francisco N. Alvarez ’11 decided to work at a Miami hospital the summer after his freshman year, he had no idea that a year later, he would be present at Spain’s first cardiac transplant employing the Berlin Heart device, a German-made artificial heart...
...Cigna in May 2008 after he became disillusioned with the for-profit health-insurance industry, decided to end his silence. (Potter's conversion was prompted in part by the 2007 case of 17-year-old Natalie Sarkisyan, who died shortly after Cigna initially denied her coverage for a liver transplant. Then presidential candidate John Edwards used the case as an example of why health-care reform was necessary...
More than 80,000 people are currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the U.S. The climb to the top of the waiting list takes anywhere from one to six years, and the delay is both agonizing and potentially deadly - each year, some 6% of patients die while waiting to be matched with a donor. Given those grim statistics, some argue kidney sales should be legalized. Paying in the ballpark of $100,000, Matas argues, is a better economic bet than our current system, in which Medicare pays for indefinite dialysis treatment - which is both costly and debilitating - for nearly...
...healthy enough to withstand a four-hour operation. You must be free of disease - HIV, hepatitis or cancer will disqualify you - and, of course, you need to have the same blood type as the recipient. It takes an average of three months for hospitals to assess and approve a transplant. Kidney donation is a major commitment - you can't drive or lift anything for six weeks, and it can be over a month before you're ready to return to work. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
Rosenbaum would be the first person to face federal organ-trafficking charges in the U.S. According to investigators, he called himself a "matchmaker" who connected those in need of a transplant with those in need of cash. Rosenbaum allegedly found sellers in Israel, where a network of operatives targeted recent immigrants to the country. He is said to have paid donors an average of $10,000 for their services and charged recipients more than ten times that amount...