Posts Tagged ‘Mike Hamel’

Last week FoxNews.com wrote about the lawsuit that MoreMarrowDonors.org joined challenging the National Organ Transplant Act.  The report, while containing some inaccuracies (for instance, Mike Hamel is a lymphoma patient, not leukemia, can be found HERE.  The article features opinions from Art Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania.  Unfortunately Mr. Caplan makes some assumptions about our program.  Furthermore, the veracity of his assertions cannot be tested because operating even a pilot program (as is our intention) is illegal under current federal law.  After we are successful in our legal challenge we look forward to testing the idea that providing various types of compensation can increase the number of successful marrow transplants.