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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Recycling human placental tissue

Recycling human placental tissue

  • Using umbilical cords

Incidence

A company in the USA banks blood from the umbilical cords of newborns for therapeutic uses.

Broader

Unauthorized organ transplantations
Unpresentable

Reduces

Inadequate disposal of hospital waste
Presentable
Limited availability of therapeutic substances of human origin
Yet to rate

Related

Inadequate emergency blood supplies
Presentable

Strategy

Treating cardiovascular diseases
Presentable
Appropriating human remains
Yet to rate

Value

Rights
Yet to rate
Inhumanity
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #5: Gender Equality

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Biosciences » Cytology
  • Biosciences » Growth
  • Economics » Resource utilization
  • Mankind » Human
  • Medicine » Reproductive system » Reproductive system
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J1444
    DOCID
    12014440
    D7NID
    145381
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020