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Texas congressman wants women to carry brain-dead fetuses to term
Death and Taxes Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert, who is a very “sympathetic and empathetic” human, just can’t see why a lady might not want to give birth to a brain-dead fetus. You know, the kind that would likely only live for a short while and likely be in … |
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Research report examines trends in pediatric organ donation and transplantation
News-Medical.net “The second thing is that if a family is interested in donation, we should try to support them in any way we can to make that happen, whether that means donation after brain death or DCDD.” Workman’s co-authors in the study included Craig W. Myrick, RN … |
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University of Utah Pediatric Fellow Publishes Study on Organ Allocation in …
Newswise (press release) “The second thing is that if a family is interested in donation, we should try to support them in any way we can to make that happen, whether that means donation after brain death or DCDD.” Workman’s co-authors in the study included Craig W. Myrick, RN … |
Intimacy or utility? Organ donation and the choice between palliation and …7thSpace Interactive (press release)Organ donation after brain death (DBD) provides the most important source for deceased organs for transplantation, both because of the numb…
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Oligomerix, Inc. Completes Series B Financing
PR Newswire (press release) Hallmark abnormalities for Alzheimer’s disease are deposits of the protein fragment beta-amyloid (plaques) and twisted strands of the protein tau (tangles) as well as evidence of nerve cell damage and brain death. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates … |
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More Kids Getting Donor Organs, But Gaps Persist, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report During that time, the overall pool of potential organ donors expanded to include not just patients who’ve experienced brain death but also those with a “circulatory determination of death.” But it’s unclear how much that shift in donor criteria helps … |
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A glimpse into military life and death
Alexandria Echo Press I noticed that the patient was posturing decordecate (for those of you non-medical types, this is very bad…usually meaning that the brain is swelling and pushing down the spinal column, and if not moved on quickly, will lead to brain death). I knew … |
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Omid Abbasi, Iranian Firefighter Who Died After Saving Young Girl, Saves 3 …
Huffington Post He gave her his oxygen mask, but by the time he had gotten her to safety, Abbasi himself had suffered ‘brain death,’ Mehr News reports. After his death, Abbasi’s family donated his organs to three patients in need of transplants. “He was kind and loved … |
Malice through the looking glassLexology (registration)A more personal concern is whether having constant access to information will lead to a slow brain death. If we are wearing Glass and could just ask Google for the answer, will we stop thinking and…
More Organs for More KidsdailyRxIt is different from when an organ is donated after brain death. Only one organ transplant after DCDD occurred for a child in 2001, but that number increased to 31 in 2010. The number of children receiving pediatric graf…