for those in countries who won’t need their insurance company’s approval to pay for a liver transplant operation:
US scientists have created working liver grafts in the lab, and say the research could one day allow the growth of livers for transplant. […]
The technique … is the same as that used when a windpipe made with the patient’s own stem cells was successfully implanted in Spain in late 2008 in the world’s first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant.
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that wealthy people in America will benefit from these medical advances sooner and at a greater rate than anyone else?
