{"id":19517,"date":"2022-02-17T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19517"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:46:15","slug":"by-altering-the-blood-type-of-lungs-researchers-raise-the-possibility-of-universal-organs-for-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19517","title":{"rendered":"By altering the blood type of lungs, researchers raise the possibility of universal organs for transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Isabella Cueto for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 4 a.m. on a humid night in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Elizabeth Ostrander couldn\u2019t breathe. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, complicated by pneumonia, was suffocating her, doctors told her that day in 2016. If she hadn\u2019t gotten to the hospital when she did, she would have died, Ostrander remembers them saying. She was in her early 50s.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/16\/by-altering-the-blood-type-of-lungs-researchers-raise-the-possibility-of-universal-organs-for-transplants\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/16\/by-altering-the-blood-type-of-lungs-researchers-raise-the-possibility-of-universal-organs-for-transplants\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Isabella Cueto for STAT) It was 4 a.m. on a humid night in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Elizabeth Ostrander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19519,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19517\/revisions\/19519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}