.... Between 1994 and 2000 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted a rule making to define more clearly the public and private roles in the determination of organ allocation policy. Several prominent liver transplant centers that were losing market share as a result of the proliferation...

...Richard A. Rettig This paper reviews the historical development of federal government policy for kidney, heart, and liver transplantation. It examines several political dimensions of whole organ transplantation: the role of the print and broadcast media; the management of organ procurement...

...Stephen J. Spurr During the last decade there have been enormous advances in the transplantation of vital human organs-in particular, the kidney, lung, heart, liver, pancreas, and small intestine. Unfortunately, efforts to provide the benefits of these operations to patients have been severely...

... . Strategies in Underwriting the Costs of Catastrophic Disease. Law and Contemporary Problems 40 : 122 , 144-45, 155-57. Havighurst , C. , and N. King. 1986 . Liver Transplantation in Massachusetts: Public Policymaking as Morality Play. Indiana Law Review 19 : 955 . Health Insurance...

...; however, more than 50% of those with acute HCV will go on to develop chronic infection (Ryerson et al. 2020 ). Over years to decades, chronic HCV frequently causes comorbidities including cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, and hepatocellular carcinoma, which may lead to liver transplantation or death...

... ): 383 -87. Calne , R. Y. 1983 . Liver Transplantation: Cambridge/Kings College Hospital Experience. New York: Grune and Stratton. Cohen , B. 1983 . Eurotransplant Foundation Annual Report. Leiden, The Netherlands: University Hospital Cohen , B. 1987 . Eurotransplant Foundation...

... and Gynecological Services. Syracuse, NY: ACOG. Annas , George J. 1985 . Regulating Heart and Liver Transplants in Massachusetts: An Overview of the Report of the Task Force on Organ Transplantation. Law, Medicine and Health Care 13 ( 1 ): 4 -7. Benlahrache , Charif , Michael Cecka, M. Ray...

... transplants that are performed each year. ”’Approximately one-third of the patients awaiting heart transplants at the Stanford Medical Center die before a suitable organ be- comes available.’ As diagnostic techniques improve, the demand for livers may also begin to increase rapidly.’ Swgical...

... rates from liver disease) that have not been included in any previous studies. These causes of death may be rough proxies for the prevalence of depression and alcohol and substance abuse in a population, which in turn are con- JHPPL 26.3-01 Mellor/Milyo 5/3/01 5:16 PM...

..., receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ [de- fined as human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bone marrow, cornea, eye, bone, and skin and any other human organ specified by the secretary of Health and Human Services by regulation] for valuable consideration for use in human...

... Notes 1. Joseph R. Newhouse, The Erosion ofthe MedicuEMurketpluce (Santa Monica, Calif.: The Rand Corporation, 1978). 2. Mark E. Rushefsky, “Political Implications of Competition in Health Care,” paper de- livered at the Committee on Health Politics panel, “The Politics of Competition...

... treatments per week. It is the existence of this nonsurgical treatment that sets the medical stage for the vast demand for human kidneys; the absence of a comparable treatment for heart and liver failure has so far precluded any comparable demand for those organs. (On the other hand, the potential...

.... 1986 . Liver Transplantation in Massachusetts: Public Policymaking as Morality Play. Indiana Law Review 19 ( 4 ): 955 -87. Health Policy Week . 1988 . 11 July, 17 ( 26 ). National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. 1968 , 1987. The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Chicago...

...) to sell one of their kidneys for transplantation in transactions to be brokered by the company for a profit (Virginia Law Review 1985: 1020-22). Most transplantable organs, however, are “harvested” from cadavers, and indeed many organs, in- cluding livers, hearts, and lungs, can only be obtained...

.... H. Brook. 1987 . Effects of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program on Physician Practice. Journal of the American Medical Association 258 : 2708 -13. Mark Je G. E. , and D. E. Chubin. 1987 . Consensus Development in Biomedicine: The Liver Transplant Controversy...

... of Transplant Recipients from 2000 to 2010. He is currently the principal investigator of the data-­coordinating centers for the NIDDK-­funded Adult-­to-­Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL) and the NIAID-­funded Clinical Outcomes of Live Organ Donors network. Merion has published...

... has increased rather steadily over the past six years. In addition, cirrhosis of the liver, a costly and potentially fatal disease, has become the sixth leading cause of death in our population. These facts have caused a shift in attitude. In most states the sanctions imposed against...

... go down like cod liver oil. The final chapters cover economic issues, normative justifications, and politics. The chapter on the costs of injury control reviews a by-now-standard set of objections to the validity of cost-benefit analysis when the items to be valued are life and health...

... by Nancy S. Jecker and Robert A. Pearlman. They discuss the applicability of “resource-centered criteria” to assess the value of specific features of the health care system or of patient-centered standards that might, for instance, reject liver trans- plants to persons with a history of alcohol abuse...