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Episode 99: Buying Kidneys with an Ethics Professor

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The Problems With Kidneys in Iran

The outcomes for receiving a kidney in Iran when I last checked, are pretty much comparable in the first 10 years to 15 years to the United States outcomes. That in part is because people in Iran might not have access to the same level of health care as they do in the United States. America supplies 80% of the world's plasma. We're an exporter of plasma. And that is just fantastic for people who have immune deficiencies and who need the pharmaceutical products that are derived from plasma.

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