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Quartz |
The awful truth of donating a dead body to “science”
Quartz … their deceased son. Quartz visited the suburban Oregon office of a dentist-turned-amateur-cryonicist who kept a refrigerator full of human heads for self-taught experiments. He’d purchased them for a few thousand dollars each from a body-donation … |
Business Insider UK |
Reuters buys human remains, and learns a donor’s tragic story …
Business Insider UK TOWNSEND, Tennessee (Reuters) – Cody Saunders was born in 1992 with failing kidneys and a hole in his heart. When he died on his 24th birthday, he had … |
KOMO News |
‘Super hero’ home from Afghanistan, donates liver to nephew
KOMO News Hudson was low on the list for a deceased donor, so his best hope would come from a living donor. Dick said while liver transplants in children happen across the country every year, living donation happens just 13 percent of the time. Most often, the … |
Gulf Times |
Extra time
Gulf Times … whether studying organs from deceased donors constitutes “human research,” said Robert Veatch, a professor emeritus of medical ethics from Georgetown University’s Kennedy School of Ethics who has participated in an academy meetings on the subject. Organ Transplantation Market by Commercialized Products – Zenapax, Prograf, Cellcept, Myfortic, Neoral and Forecast …Digital Journal |
Green Bay Press Gazette |
She was saved by a kidney transplant. But there thousands more who need one.
Green Bay Press Gazette “This is the best I’ve felt,” she said this week. “Everything is excellent.” RELATED: NASCAR driver Joey Gase brings organ donation awareness to Wisconsin track … With a limited number of organs available for transplant, the National Kidney … |
Technology Networks |
“Normal” Tissue Near Tumors May Host Hidden Cancer Characteristics
Technology Networks The GTEx project includes genomic profiles of thousands of tissue samples from deceased donors, including many individuals who did not have cancer. And TCGA has genomic profiles of thousands of tumor samples and hundreds of tumor-adjacent samples … |
Reuters India |
In the US market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead
Reuters India The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one’s body to “advance medical studies.” Outside Southern Nevada’s suburban warehouse … |
2BR2BR – News – Megan remembered at awards ceremony2BRA Lancashire girl is being honoured tonight – for her incredibly selfless gift of donating her organs. Megan Hoyle was just 14 when she took her own life in …and more »
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Filipino President Duterte pays respects to deceased cardinal
Catholic Culture CWN Editor’s Note: Temporarily setting aside his differences with the Filipino hierarchy, President Duterte visited the wake of Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, noting the Cardinal Vidal had been the first prelate to visit him after his election in 2016. The … |