News Roundup #5: Heart-dropping, turkish triple transplant, transplant tourism ban, further fecal matters
Handle with care Apparently, a heart doesn’t break if you drop it. In Mexico, the heart that was fumbled en route was actually successfully transplanted. It seems they took a page out of the One Tree Hill book. But thank god there wasn’t a hungry canine. Turkey: A transplantation juggernaut? WaPo reports on the world’s … Read more
News roundup #1: Critical need for Latino donors, successful UK Sikh temple drive, fecal transplant commentary and more
Great local NBC news coverage from South Texas about the dwindling numbers of blood and tissue donors, with a special focus on the Latino community (video and article). Sikh temple drive in Leicester, UK yields 600 marrow donors (BBC News). Here’s a video of the BBC TV news coverage. Wired Magazine has some interesting commentary … Read more
