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The extra year she lived was still probably more than if she had turned down the transplant. I had a friend pass away last July who needed a lung and heart transplant but he was too high a risk to "waste" the organs..or so said the doctors.
Healthy major organs for transplants are hard to come by...Healthy people with stong heart and lungs aren't just dropping over dead to provide nice organs to transplant.
Healthy major organs for transplants are hard to come by...Healthy people with stong heart and lungs aren't just dropping over dead to provide nice organs to transplant.
I'll bet that if you could ask her, she probably couldn't care less if her 'new' lungs belonged to a smoker or not. Too bad she couldn't have lasted another 20 years, but she got a year out of it, which was more than she had before.
Some of these 'headlines' are just too dumb to be believed...
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Some of these 'headlines' are just too dumb to be believed...
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They have, I saw a show on Discovery a couple months ago. They were "programming" stem cells to grow various parts like an ear as well as arteries. They also had some success with experimenting growing heart valves etc. Full blown organs are not that far away.
I see the pic of the ear grown on the lab rats back.
I hope they do it asap....people are dying.
They probably can but want to keep it secret!!
Poor lady
Hope that is not the case.
No. I remember that one from quite some time ago (a few years) The one I saw with the ear a few months ago was grown within the persons own body.
Found a link.
Ear grown under woman's forearm gets transplanted - CBS News
Other parts were grown in a special growing medium basically in a jar.