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Health, Sports & FitnessBy myqute
6 months ago
The Stingy "Mean Fart" But Wiser Way to Health Donation Campaigns and Better Health Transplants: Organs, Bone Marrow and Skin - Safe? (Warning: This blog entry may contain disturbing image/s. Parental guidance advised for minors.)
Firstly, let me chat a little of how I feel towards certain donations:
1. Some donations do not guarantee that patients get a suitable match for organs or bone marrow transplants. [ Donors' T-cells may recognize the recipient as foreign, and start an immune attack on the recipient’s normal tissues and organs. This disease is known as graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). CGVHD is also a transplant-related disease with no symptoms in the first few months after transplant. More info: Dangers of bone marrow transplant may not be due to "viruses already present in patients' bodies" ]
2. Some donations (majority of it) goes into helping already-rich pharmaceutical companies to produce more prescription medicines with side-effects.
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