Showing posts with label Organ Transplants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Organ Transplants. Show all posts

January 21, 2016

Oregon Family's Five Children Have Heart Illnesses





http://www.heartsforbinghams.org/

http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/getting-a-new-heart-604291651978

Getting a New Heart
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Stacy Bingham explains how a heart transplant works to her son, Gage. Two of the Bingham's five children have already recieved heart transplants and now their son gave is on the list to wait for a donor heart.

July 18, 2015

Planned Parenthood Employee Marketing Body Parts From Fetuses Was White House Staffer




[From article]
Disgraced Planned Parenthood official Deborah Nucatola’s shocking personal work history is coming to light.
Records reveal that Nucatola was employed by a former White House staffer at the time that she was selling aborted baby fetus parts.
A staunch political advocate, Nucatola railed against the “right-wing” Bush administration. What’s more, she so enjoyed her work in the abortion industry that she touted a T-shirt celebrating a drug used in the practice.
Nucatola is currently employed at Sexual Health Innovations, founded by former Obama White House staffer Jessica Ladd. Senior Obama administration officials sit on the board of the abortion activist group, including Praveen Basaviah of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Kyle Bernstein of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The IRS-approved 501(c)3 tech nonprofit is a major Obama administration contractor.
[. . .]
Responding to the Bush administration’s global gag rule preventing advocacy groups from counseling women to have abortions, Nucatola wrote, “Despite recent advances, women in the United States and abroad continue to suffer the consequences of a right-wing U.S. administration that has put politics before health and ideology before science…The policies of the Bush administration do not represent America at its best, nor do they represent the values that the majority of Americans hold dear.”
She Didn’t Want Women To Come Back
Nucatola co-authored a 2012 study entitled “Eliminating the routine postoperative surgical abortion visit.”
“The objective of this study was to determine whether replacing the “routine” postoperative visit after surgical abortion with an “as indicated” visit is associated with an increase in the rates of either failed abortion (continuing pregnancy) or repeat abortion,” the authors outline.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/17/disgraced-planned-parenthood-official-works-for-white-house-staff-her-right-wing-hatred-exposed/#ixzz3g7dRShP2

Disgraced Planned Parenthood Official Works For White House Staff…Her ‘Right-Wing’ Hatred EXPOSED
PATRICK HOWLEYPolitical Reporter
Daily Caller

May 18, 2015

Eleven Year Old Rhode Island Girl Needs Bone Marrow Transplant



Jeralene Ares
[From article]
An 11-year-old girl desperately needs a bone-marrow donor.
Jeralene Ares has sickle-cell anemia and requires a stem-cell transplant to cure her.
Her best chance for a match is a Latino donor with a similar ethnic background, but Latinos are underrepresented in the bone-marrow registry.
The New York Blood Center is hosting a special blood and bone marrow registration drive in Washington Heights on Saturday, May 16, in search of a possible match for Jeralene.
Jeralene and her family are traveling from Rhode Island to Washington Heights, where she has extended family.
Registering as a possible blood-marrow donor is easy — just a swiping inside of one’s cheek.
The registration Saturday will take place noon to 6 p.m. at 501 West 172nd Street, at Amsterdam Avenue, in the Bloodmobile Bus parked at FDNY EMS Station 13.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/15/11-year-old-girl-in-search-of-life-saving-bone-marrow-match/

11-year-old girl in search of life-saving bone-marrow match
By Susan Edelman
New York Post
May 15, 2015 | 5:15pm

February 25, 2015

Get Ready For Full Body Transplants



Doctor plans to attach a living person’s head to a donor body in operation he says is not far off. Photograph: Alamy
Much too difficult. It is much easier and less time consuming to just do mind transplants. If Obama, Biden, Holder, the Clintons and Jonathan Gruber can do it, anyone can.

[From article]
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
[. . .]
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
[. . .]
According to the procedure Canavero outlined this month, doctors would first cool the patient’s head and the donor’s body so their cells do not die during the operation. The neck is then cut through, the blood vessels linked up with thin tubes, and the spinal cord cut with an exceptionally sharp knife to minimise nerve damage. The recipient’s head is then moved on to the donor’s body.
The next stage is trickier. Canavero believes that the spinal cord nerves that would allow the recipient’s brain to talk to the donor’s body can be fused together using a substance called polyethylene glycol. To stop the patient moving, they must be kept in a coma for weeks. When they come round, Canavero believes they would be able to speak and feel their face, though he predicts they would need a year of physiotherapy before they could move the body.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/25/first-full-body-transplant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim

First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims
Doctor plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body using procedures he believes will soon be ready
Ian Sample, science editor
@iansample
Wednesday 25 February 2015 13.50 EST

December 10, 2013

Steve Jobs' Liver Transplant Under Scrutiny



[From article]
Dr. James Eason, who performed the March 2009 liver transplant, moved into the palatial house Jobs bought for his recovery just a few months after the operation, according to a report.
[. . .]
“It strikes me as a potential conflict of interest,” said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist for New York University.
Shortly after it emerged that Jobs had the surgery in 2009, Eason issued a statement saying that Jobs received the transplant “because he was … the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” based on a scoring system known as the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/10/house-deal-by-steve-jobs-doctor-raises-eyebrows/

Jobs doctor’s house deal raises eyebrows
By Kaja Whitehouse
December 10, 2013 | 1:26am
New York Post

December 6, 2012

Forcing Organ Donors With Life Signs

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/organ_ghouls_of_doom_suit_LxCZMP5uRGgI6yn3ywMN9J

Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare
brain dead: suit
By JAMIE SCHRAM Police Bureau Chief
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:43 AM, September 26, 2012
Posted: 1:17 AM, September 26, 2012

May 28, 2012

Worldwide Illegal Sale of Kidneys Thrives

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/27/kidney-trade-illegal-operations-who


Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
World Health Organisation estimates 10,000 black market operations involving human organs take place each year
Denis Campbell and Nicola Davison in Shanghai
guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 27 May 2012 15.00 EDT

June 15, 2011

Organ Transplants, Criminal Business

[From article]
"Such is the state of worldwide organ transplantation in the modern age. Its commerce is controlled through sophisticated networks composed of kidnappers, smugglers, morticians and brokers, all aided by the porous borders of international law and advances in medicine, which have made transplantation exponentially less of a risk. The poorest countries supply; the richest countries buy.
[. . .]
the largest and most profitable rings operating in and among the US, Israel, Japan, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil — the latter three primarily suppliers, with the highest concentration of consumers in the others."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/invasion_of_the_body_snatchers_BnERlEkmSgkAsc9ZRV0mhP

Invasion of the body snatchers!
Inside the massive, global business of selling organs
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:55 AM, June 12, 2011
Posted: 10:52 PM, June 11, 2011