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A Hearty Life

April 11th, 2007

How much does this heart cost?

Need an organ transplant? All it takes is money and the willingness to take risks. Buying an organ, however, doesn’t guarantee a long, healthy life. I’d be afraid of any infectious diseases that may come from purchased organs but sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils. Here’s how much a heart would […]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD -- 0 comments

October 18th, 2006

Heart Transplants and Hepatitis C

You’d think it would be a bad idea to transplant a heart from a donor infected with hepatitis C. But apparently, it’s considered acceptable if the heart transplant recipient is older or already infected with the hepatitis C virus.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that regardless of […]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD -- 0 comments