He said he has seen multi-organ patients go through pregnancy, but not five-organ transplants.
Officials say the country would instead rely on a new national donation system for organ transplants.
These stem cells are largely interchangeable between patients and don't require matching, as organ transplants do.
About 7, 000 Americans die each year because they are unable to get lifesaving organ transplants, primarily kidneys.
Turkey, India and Iraq were the big centers for underground organ transplants until public outrage--or war--curtailed the business.
According to one notable supporter, this second measure alone should double the number of organ transplants available in California.
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Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
Hiroki had to travel to the U.S., where he is awaiting a heart, because Japan prohibits organ transplants involving children.
Seventeen people in Northern Ireland died between April 2010 to April 2011 whilst on the waiting for list for organ transplants.
At PatientsLikeMe, there are forums where people discuss experiences with AIDS, supranuclear palsy, depression, organ transplants, post-traumatic stress disorder and self-mutilation.
Just over 600 five-organ transplants have been recorded as of 2011, according to the latest figures available from the Intestinal Transplant Association.
People over age 50 and those with conditions such as cancer, diabetes and kidney disease or with organ transplants are at greater risk.
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An estimated 1.5 million people in China are in need of organ transplants annually, while only 10, 000 receive them, according to government statistics.
Those at greater risk are people older than 50 and those with conditions such as cancer, diabetes and kidney disease, or with organ transplants.
Due to severe state budget difficulties, the State of Arizona recently ended a government program that funded organ transplants for those in life-threatening circumstances.
But there are still more than 8, 000 people waiting for organ transplants in the UK - a figure which rises by about 8% a year.
The government's fears may be unfounded, given that essential organ transplants from dead people are legal over most of the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Routine surgery would become life-threatening because of the risk of untreatable infections, care for premature babies and certain cancer patients would falter, organ transplants would be unviable.
"I understand the controversy that surrounds foreign-country organ transplants, " Kevin's mother, Connie Carpenter, wrote us just 45 minutes after her son died in his hospital bed in Hangzhou.
Typically, patients seeking organ transplants register as candidates for the national waiting list through the United Network for Organ Sharing after receiving medical clearance from their hospitals.
One of the great promises of stem cell research is the potential to end the need for organ transplants by actually growing new organs from the DNA of the host.
In the early 1980s at a company called Syntex (now part of Roche), he developed Cytovene to treat a viral infection of the eye that can blind AIDS patients and recipients of organ transplants.
The distaste people may initially feel for the idea of "commercializing" organ transplants should be readily overcome by the unassailable fact that thousands of people--many in the prime of life--are needlessly dying.
The immune-disease angle surfaced when doctors noticed that cancer patients who also had psoriasis found their skin improved when they took the immune suppressants methotrexate (for cancer) and cyclosporine (for organ transplants).
Consider this: There are more Olympic athletes, baseball players on Major League rosters, professional symphony musicians in large cities and doctors who perform organ transplants than there are members of The Forbes 400.
Such technology has obvious implications for organ transplants.
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Tissue cloned in this way from the patient's own cells would not, it is thought, be rejected by the body's immune system, which is currently a major obstacle to organ transplants and many other treatments.
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After the FBI raided Cohan's office in 1998 on behalf of Italian authorities, the investigating officer stated in an affidavit that the agency suspected Cohan was defrauding the public with false claims he could broker organ transplants.
Kono, who gave a kidney to his father, said a total of 81 organ transplants have been conducted in Japan since the transplant law was enacted in 1997, whereas nearly thousands of transplants occur in the United States each year.
Not surprisingly a growing number of sick Americans are desperately trying to make their own arrangements for organ transplants overseas, particularly in China, Pakistan, India and the Philippines--and despite the obvious risks, including hospital quality and the condition of the transplant organ.
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