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    Organ Transplants

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    Honors Activity 6.3 Organ Transplants In order to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs in a person’s body‚ immunosuppressive therapy is necessary. These drugs have saved many lives and extended many others. The number of patients taking immunosuppressive drugs is not decreasing and at the same time doctors following up their patients after an organ transplant must be very vigilant and need to monitor the patience response to the therapy very closely. Unfortunately science has not yet

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    Heart Donation Memo

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    This memorandum is to make the best Utilitarian decision for the heart transplant recipient that has just become available. Options that will be taken into account include age‚ accountability for taking care of the heart‚ reasons why the patient needs a new heart‚ and ultimately which patient will offer the most to the world because of this operation. Ozzie is not a suitable choice to be the recipient of this heart that has become available. He has a heart condition that is due to the continued

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    Organ Sales Currently‚ the United States is facing a crisis. On average‚ 20 people are dying every day because there is a shortage of organs. Right now‚ to receive an organ‚ one must wait for an organ donor to die‚ or receive an organ from someone who is willing to give up one of theirs. With technology and medical advances‚ organ transplants are becoming more successful‚ effective‚ and safe. For those reasons‚ many people would be willing to sell an organ to a complete stranger. But right

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    of organs in the United States is leading to dilemmas and moral issues for physicians. They are taking a closer look at the feasible recipients and their potential for future success. The key to a successful transplant is carefully selecting those patients who are good matches and who need it urgently. For example‚ patients who have matching blood types should receive organs before those whose bodies may reject the implant. One problem that physicians are dealing with is providing organs to

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    Cloning Humans for Organs

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    Humans for Organs: Introduction: On June 26‚ 2000‚ scientists involved in the Human Genome Project announced their success in mapping the human genome. This has created an enormous controversy over property rights in human tissue. With advances in biotechnology and the advent in cloning‚ it seems likely that these issues will continue to cause controversy in the years to come. As the shortage of organs available for transplantation continues to grow‚ new methods of obtaining organs and tissues

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    Every single year 4‚000 people die waiting to receive a kidney alone. Thousands more die waiting on the organ donor list. It is the desperate need to survive that has caused people to do immeasurable things‚ even if it’s illegal. The organ sales on the black market is a very real thing. Obviously‚ there is a great need for organs‚ so is the global market for organ sales the answer? This is a complicated and delicate question to pose because many believe that a for profit system cannot exist without

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    The Sale of Human Organs

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    of Human Organs If your loved one was faced with a life or death situation would you do everything in your power to help them. The easy answer to this would be yes but thousands of people are dying every year because there just aren ’t enough organs to be transplanted. There are hundreds of thousands of individuals in need of life-saving organ transplants‚ but the wait list is so long‚ that human organ sales should be legal. This has the potential to allow patients to look for organs of a similar

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    3D Organ Printing

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    Organ transplants are a science that is more understood the more and more it is done‚ Dying organs that are dying because of diseases are helping science‚ replacing their organs is a difficult thing since doctors and the individuals themselves have to wait for an organ to be donated to the hospital. Additive manufacturing also known as three-dimensional printing/3D printing which is also a innovations in many places such as engineering‚ manufacturing‚ art‚ education and medicine. Advances have

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    Saving Lives When Is It Ethical The decision to be an organ donor is not an easy decision to make‚ but the donor has the easiest part of the donation process. The decision of when to extract the organs usually falls on the family and the attending physician. The question since organ donation began has always been when are you really dead? This one question has been an ongoing controversy not only with the public‚ but with churches‚ and the government as well. The government has tried to put rules

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    Organ Sales Research Paper

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    Organ sales Should organ selling organs be legalized? Yes or no? me personally I would stand between it because there are plenty of good facts on both why and why it shouldn’t be legalized‚ such as; think about how many people die with good organs that someone else is in need of or suffering from and organ disease‚ so why let this person suffer? Then again‚ is it right to sell someone else’s organs and make a profit off of it? This is a hard topic to decide on ‚ because you have to honestly think

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