Quick Sand of Health Care Restrictions - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Dr. Macchiarini has traveled to Vermont to interview Rachel, and he believes she is a prime candidate for a trachea transplant. If all goes well, Rachel will be the twelfth person, and the first American, to undergo this surgery. But before the process of growing a new trachea can begin, Dr. Macchiarini first needs to extract some of Rachel’s stem cells and test those cells. And that testing procedure must be approved by the NIH before anyone can perform it in the United States.