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Transplants: Organs, Bone Marrow and Skin - Safe?

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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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