With all eyes fixed on the Supreme Court?s recent health-care decision, a life-saving development swooped in under the radar: It is now legal to compensate bone-marrow donors. This represents a triumph for the 2,000-3,000 people with cancer and blood diseases who die each year while awaiting a marrow transplant.
Efforts to challenge the federal ban on compensating marrow donors began three years ago, led by the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm. The firm?s clients were families afraid their ill loved ones would die because they couldn?t get a transplant.
Last December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled unanimously in their favor. Pivotal to the judge?s decision was that modern bone-marrow donation is accomplished through a process called apheresis, through which doctors filter bone marrow stem cells from blood drawn from a donor?s arm. The process takes several hours.
via An organ ?donor? revolution ? Society and Culture ? AEI.
Source: http://jhpplnewsandnotes.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/an-organ-donor-revolution-society-and-culture-aei/
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