Word: transplante
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...while processing this directive] cynicism that comes with relentlessly crawling over the skin of the city in the company of "fares" whose primary wish is to get somewhere else quick. When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that he buries in his ex-wife's garden. Several centuries on, after a great flood has reduced England...
...part—the best part—a letter. Lucchino, a man whom Cosgriff had never met, had himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
...WFUSM and lead researcher, in a press release. While other simpler tissues, such as skin and bone cells, have been lab-grown, this marks the first time that a complex organ such as the bladder has been successfully grown and accepted by a patient. In the past, similar transplants were done using tissue samples from other organs or through organ donors. Building a bladder from other tissue has often resulted in numerous complications, including rejection of the organ, bone loss, and even cancer. Scientists believe that the widespread use of lab-grown organs may ease the massive shortage of requests...
...Even if we have a plan, it’s not widely revealed,” he said, describing informal surveying among Pennsylvania residents that showed they did not know where to go for vaccination in the event of an avian flu outbreak. Caplan said that the way transplants are currently conducted may provide lessons on how to make pandemics-related policy just and fair. He said that the public understands the limited availability of organs for transplant and the rules of distribution, while arrangements for the allocation of avian flu vaccinations are not as clear or well-understood. Daniel...
...National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 bans donors from receiving any “valuable consideration” in exchange for their organ. UNOS has argued that organ exchanges are not prohibited under the act. Roth said that an amendment to the 1984 act might be needed to establish a nationwide exchange...