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Obtaining human organs for transplantation is largely managed by UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, and it’s a not for profit enterprise. Yet Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, says if current political forces have …
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Does the organ transplantation system in the US need reform? That’s the agenda of a disgruntled family member whose relative waited years for a transplant, in testimony before Congress, but Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, …
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UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, oversees much of the organ transplantation taking place in the United States, and how it manages this is currently under attack, with some proponents arguing that the system should be replaced by one …
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Is five years unacceptably long to wait on a transplant list for a donor heart? The son of a recipient thinks so, and is attempting to radically change our national organ transplant system. Johns Hopkins neuro critical care expert Adam Schiavi …
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Almost 400 million firearms are in civilian hands in the United States, a fact cited in the recently released JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms. Another is that firearms are involved in nearly 80% of homicides and …
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In our current AI boom, it can seem as if technology will soon take over our lives. Yet Joseph Sakran, one member of a multidisciplinary panel that has just published The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms …
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