April 11th, 2007
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 […]
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October 18th, 2006
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 […]
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