There is no clear path for African patients to get access to the treatments, which have multimillion-dollar price tags and are highly complex to manufacture and deliver.
Tag: Transplants
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New Technique for Harvesting Donor Organs Is Criticized by Ethicists
The technique restarts circulation after an organ donor is declared dead. But first surgeons cut off blood flow to the brain. One surgeon called it “creepy.”
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Second Maryland Man to Receive an Altered Pig’s Heart Has Died
Researchers said they found signs of organ rejection, which the genetically modified tissue was supposed to prevent.
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Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart Is Transplanted Into a Second Patient
The first patient to receive such an organ died after two months. “At least now I have hope,” the second recipient said before the surgery.