CMAJ• JULY 9, 2002; 167 (1) 43 ability of some of the expert witnesses put at the disposal of
the lay panels was questionable. That said, judging by the description given in the official …

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would personally agree with the panellists that it is premature to proceed with vascularized …

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The Australian moratorium on human clinical trials of xenotransplantation was lifted in
December 2009. This decision follows public consultations on whether xenotransplantation …

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which it can safely proceed were presented last month in Washington, DC. One comes from …

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interventions, must balance opportunity and risk. Whereas traditional stakeholders, such as …

There has been much discussion recently in both the scientific literature and the popular
media about the potential benefits and risks of proceeding with clinical xenotransplantation …

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primarily on analyses of: 1) the medical benefits that might accrue to individual patients in …

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(pos sibly not too distant) future, . awhen xenotransplantation is considered clinically feasible …

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patients with irreversible organ failure, it also raises ethical, psychosocial, and regulatory …