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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on November 27, 2013, 08:39:13 AM

Title: U.S. government to keep ban on paying bone marrow donors
Post by: Clark on November 27, 2013, 08:39:13 AM

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/u-s-government-to-keep-ban-on-paying-bone-marrow-donors-1.1562668

U.S. government to keep ban on paying bone marrow donors

Could paying for bone marrow cells really boost the number of donors? The Obama administration is taking steps to block a federal court ruling that had opened a way to find out.

Buying or selling organs has long been illegal, punishable by five years in jail. The 1984 National Organ Transplantation Act that set the payment ban didn't just refer to solid organs -- it included bone marrow transplants, too.

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"It is not a matter of how you obtain it," said Shelley Grant of the Health Resources and Services Administration's transplant division. "Whether we obtain them through the marrow or the circulatory system, it is those stem cells that provide a potential cure."

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Title: The comments are closed, but submitted comments available
Post by: Clark on December 04, 2013, 09:00:09 AM

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;po=0;dct=PS;D=HRSA-2013-0002;refD=HRSA-2013-0002-0001