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  2. Organ procurement organization - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United States, [1] each responsible for organ procurement in a specific region, and each a member of the ...

  3. Organ trade - Wikipedia

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    Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [ 1][ 2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical ...

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.

  5. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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    If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]

  6. In Texas, can someone change the donor status on your driver ...

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    Now I have to unregister as a donor. I’m a cancer patient and have never been a donor.” Donate Life Texas is the official organ, eye and tissue donor registry for the state of Texas. Chad ...

  7. National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 - Wikipedia

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    The National Organ Transplant Act ( NOTA) of 1984 is an Act of the United States Congress that created the framework for the organ transplant system in the country. [ 1] The act provided clarity on the property rights of human organs obtained from deceased individuals and established a public-private partnership known as Organ Procurement and ...

  8. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same ...

  9. Is it ethical to use animals as organ farms for humans? - AOL

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    Even though a record 41,000 organ transplants were conducted in the U.S. last year, more than 100,000 Americans are estimated to be on the transplant waiting list. An average of 17 people die each ...