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Problem
Recycling human placental tissue
Other Names:
Using umbilical cords
Incidence:
A company in the USA banks blood from the umbilical cords of newborns for therapeutic uses.
Broader Problems:
Unauthorized organ transplantations
Related Problems:
Inadequate emergency blood supplies
Reduces:
Inadequate disposal of hospital waste
Limited availability of therapeutic substances of human origin
Strategies:
Appropriating human remains
Treating cardiovascular diseases
Values:
Rights
Inhumanity
Subject(s):
Biosciences
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Cytology
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Biosciences
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Growth
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Economics
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Resource utilization
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Mankind
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Human
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Medicine
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Reproductive system
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Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems
Date of last update
22.10.2019 – 19:50 CEST