Move to get more glands
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON.
The Society of Pathologists is looking at ways to improve the collection of pituitary glands, which provide a hormone used to treat growth defects in children. An Auckland doctor said last week that the hormone treatment programme centred on Auckland was receiving half of the 3000 glands needed each year. A spokesman for the society said on Monday that endocrinologists asked for more glands two years ago. The society asked its members to step up their collection, which takes place during autopsies, but since then it had received no follow-up reaction from the endocrinologists. It had been suggested that paying mortuary attendants a fee for each gland collected would improve the collection of the glands, he said. The society opposed this because it was the pathologist's duty to conduct the autopsy and he was legally responsible for what happened to the tissues.
The collection scheme in New Zealand had been run voluntarily so far “and we would like to see it remain that way.”
Tlie situation might be different in several countries where pharmaceutical manufacturing companies paid “handsomely” for human tissues to use in their products, said the spokesman.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 23
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