New Regulations Needed For Patients Receiving Animal Tissue Donation – Study Recommends Patient Waivers That Provide Full Disclosure Of Risks

June 29, 2007

A new article in The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics calls for a change in the regulations surrounding xenotransplantation, the transplanting of animal cells, tissues or organs into humans. Although few xenotransplantation procedures have been done to this time, there appears to be a lack of awareness among potential xenotransplant patients about the risk of the procedures, and the required lifetime of infectious disease monitoring that come with it. (Medical News Today)