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FDA urged to relax decades-old tissue donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men

Sheryl J. Moore has been advocating for the past decade to update the rules about gay men donating tissue since she lost her eldest son, Alexander “AJ” Betts Jr., to suicide in 2013 and his corneas went to waste. (KC McGinnis for KFF Health News/TNS)
Sheryl J. Moore has been advocating for the past decade to update the rules about gay men donating tissue since she lost her eldest son, Alexander “AJ” Betts Jr., to suicide in 2013 and his corneas went to waste. (KC McGinnis for KFF Health News/TNS)
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Restrictions on men who have had sex with another man have been reduced for donations of organs and blood. But restrictions on donated tissue remain in place.

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