14,000 patients wait for areat match. pat wall street journal senior editor yarr page writer colin levey joins us with more.er colin, let s try to give some context to people and go back. this is ale 1984 law that banned compensating for organ donations, things like livers and kidneys. bone marrow was included in that because at the time thathe kind of transfer was very difficult technologically.diff but that s changed over the years. now it is much easier.now tell us how. right.te at the time it was a relatively complicated procedure that requiredrela sedation.icat in the 30 years since it has become something not much moreit difficult than donating blood. it is a process where a donor can go in and get hooked up to a machine and have blood taken out. that is essentially how it works. in 2009 the institute in for justice on behalf of a woman named doreen flynn who is a mother with three children who have a blood who disease that may require
pivot. good for the obama administration. the obama pivot to asia. fresh off the scandal with the irs and the tea party groups. theirs irs and the treasury are proposing rules to curtail the activities of tax exempt political groups in campaigns. these groups somehow didn tomeh sway the election for mitt romney, but then still trying to limit their right of free speech.spee colin. i have a hit to all of the people who ate a little too m much on thanksgiving. everyone is feelingne guilty now, but as it turns out studies have actually shown sho that dieters who do indulge once in awhile in high calorie foods are more likely to be able to lose weight and keep weight off than people whof, deprive themselves entirely. it is good news for yourr grandmother s advice which is everything in moderation. the all you can eat weight loss diet, colin, that s what you are suggesting works? that s my way. every so often. s great to hear it.