Week-long storage boosts time organs are usable and distances over which they can be moved Human livers from organ donors can now be preserved for a week, researchers have revealed, a dramatic improvement on previous techniques, which could only keep the organs usable for a matter of hours. The technology could boost the number of …
Organ donation: new technique can preserve human livers for a week Read More »
Every day, Americans are dying because of an inefficient organ donation system. That reality is as tragic as it is fixable, and cemented a seemingly unlikely friendship between us as two former White House staffers who served two very different presidents. It might seem like there are not many points of policy agreement between the …
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In June 2014, while my son was asleep on an operating table I laid down to serve as his living organ donor. A surgeon removed a third of my liver and implanted it in his 2-year-old body, replacing his diseased organ with mine. Living organ donation is a remarkable opportunity. It is also massively expensive. …