The Sunday Sidebar.
Lots of interesting news this week.
Let’s talk transplants…
US doctors at John Hopkins Hospital recently performed what is believed to be the world’s first simulanteous six-way kidney transplant. Can you imagine that? Twelve people were operated on at the same time, with kidneys removed from six people and transplanted into six other people.
Why all at once? In the words of Jeanne Heise who received a kidney from one donor while her husband was donating a kidney to another patient…
“The waiting list for a kidney is very long and too many people die while waiting. With this group procedure, more and more people can beat kidney disease and live long productive lives.”
John Hopkins Hospital helped pioneer this system which matches up several groups of people at one time and have been doing these simultaneous transplants for the past three years. But this is the first time they tried a six-way kidney transplant.
And what about reproduction…
I’m sure everyone by now has watched or read news reports about the man who is pregnant. It’s sure got people talking and many of them have very strong opinions about the pros and cons about this pregnancy. Thomas Beatie, who was a woman and is now a man, was recently on Oprah defending his decision and his right to become pregnant and have a child…
“I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”
Meanwhile, in India…
According to this news report. Shiypuri District authorities in Madhya Pradesh have come up with a novel idea - they are motivating men to undergo a vasectomy in exchange for a gun license. Apparently guys living in this region equate guns with prestige and as a consequence, this promotion has resulted in 150 men undergoing vasectomies in the past four months. Is this for real? Think I prefer the March Madness promotion!!!
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