{"id":6531,"date":"2023-04-09T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2023-04-07T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:52:20","slug":"penn-state-health-expert-debunks-six-myths-about-organ-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/09\/penn-state-health-expert-debunks-six-myths-about-organ-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Health expert debunks six myths about organ donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6531\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Reviewed by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/medical\/authors\/emily-henderson\">Emily Henderson, B.Sc<\/a>.<br>Right now, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. &#8211; nearly two times the population of Harrisburg &#8211; are waiting for organ transplants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors helped 42,887 of them last year, up 3.7% from 2021. Donated kidneys, hearts and livers helped them survive what was once incurable &#8211; old death sentences like heart failure, lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20230405\/Penn-State-Health-expert-debunks-six-myths-about-organ-donation.aspx\">Read more<\/a> in News Medical Life Sciences.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6531\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Reviewed by\u00a0Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Right now, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. &#8211; nearly two times the population of Harrisburg &#8211; are waiting for organ transplants. Doctors helped 42,887 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/09\/penn-state-health-expert-debunks-six-myths-about-organ-donation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Penn State Health expert debunks six myths about organ donation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,34],"tags":[25,1832],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1500","post_likes_plusCounter":"3","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}