{"id":22618,"date":"2021-07-28T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/210728105642-htm\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:56:00","slug":"210728105642-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=22618","title":{"rendered":"Hearts from donors who used illicit drugs or overdosed safe for transplant, cuts wait time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tragically, the opioid epidemic has led to an increase in accidental and premature deaths, which has also increased the number of hearts available for potential organ donation. Receiving a heart from a donor who used illicit drugs does not impact the recipient&#8217;s survival, according to a group of researchers from Virginia, Arizona and Indiana.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/07\/210728105642.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nRead full article at www.sciencedaily.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; color:#555;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not replace professional medical advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragically, the opioid epidemic has led to an increase in accidental and premature deaths, which has also increased the number of hearts available for potential organ donation. Receiving a heart from a donor who used illicit drugs does not impact the recipient&#8217;s survival, according to a group of researchers from Virginia, Arizona and Indiana. Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[11855,11851,4243,11850,11852,11853,10540,10829,11854,11856],"class_list":["post-22618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-cuts","tag-donors","tag-drugs","tag-hearts","tag-illicit","tag-overdosed","tag-safe","tag-time","tag-transplant","tag-wait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}