But with time, xenotransplantation could solve the most pressing crisis in medicine - the organ shortage.
He also developed an interest in social and ethical issues of transplantation, organ shortage, and human rights abuses.
The Pennsylvania law also mandated public education programs to increase awareness of the organ shortage.
If everyone willing to be a donor became one, there wouldn't be an organ shortage.
For now, allowing the brokers to operate with few restrictions in effect benefits the state by exporting Israel's organ shortage overseas.
The organ shortage is aggravated by the fact that many recipients require multiple transplants.
Unfortunately, there is a continuing organ shortage and in Europe almost 10 people on transplant waiting lists die each day.
The organ shortage is all too often linked with organ trafficking.
However, the need to make up for this organ shortage should not lead us to sacrifice our values.
An important reason for the transplant crisis, apart from the flawed delivery system, is that the nation as a whole faces a severe organ shortage.