To improve the rates of organ donation in order to save more lives, a summit has been planned on August 18th in WA.
The summit will be a meeting of important people like medical specialists, transplant surgeons, donor families, transplant recipients and members of the public who can make a positive influence to increase organ donation rates.
AMA Welcomes Government?s Proposal on Organ Donation
The Australian Medical Association today congratulated the Rudd Government on its multi-million dollar proposal to assist in the organ transplant rate in Australia.
The Australian Medical Association today congratulated the Rudd Government on its multi-million dollar proposal to assist in the organ transplant rate in Australia.
In 2007, organ donation by 58 Australians saved the lives of over 200 people.
Expressing optimism, Health Minister Jim McGinty said, “Donating organs saves lives and improves the quality of life. After the summit, I want to be in the position to go forward with the legislative and administrative changes that will remove all of the impediments to organ donation. Some of the world’s best transplant teams are right here in WA and there is strong public support for organ donation, but for some reason we have a very low donation rate by international standards. We need to look at the reasons why we don’t have organs donated from cardiac death and why families are not talking about organ donation so relatives know what their loved one would want if that difficult decision needs to be made.”
Surgeon Accused of Hastening Death of Patient to Retrieve Organs
A California-based surgeon, Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, has been charged with prescribing excessive and improper doses of drugs to hasten the death of one of his patients to retrieve his organs sooner.
A California-based surgeon, Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, has been charged with prescribing excessive and improper doses of drugs to hasten the death of one of his patients to retrieve his organs sooner.
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Procedure Makes Mismatched Kidney Transplant Tolerable
In a trial of an experimental protocol designed to induce tolerance to HLA mismatched kidney transplant, four of five patients have been able to discontinue immunosuppressive drugs.
In a trial of an experimental protocol designed to induce tolerance to HLA mismatched kidney transplant, four of five patients have been able to discontinue immunosuppressive drugs.
About Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
