June 12, 2019
Organ Donation / Transplantation
June 10, 2019
Opioid Overdose Now Provides 1 in 6 Donor Hearts
June 5, 2019
Organ and Tissue Donation in Patients Considering MAiD: New Guidance Helps Navigate Emerging Area
June 4, 2019
Chinese Dissidents Are Being Executed for Their Organs Former Hospital Worker Says
June 3, 2019
These Are the Organs Transplant Patients Need the Most
May 20, 2019
Kosovo Police Arrest Four People on Suspicion of Harvesting Human Organs and Selling Them to Wealthy Patients
May 20, 2019
Patient Hurt by Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas Prompts FDA Warning
May 14, 2019
New Liver Transplant Rules Begin Amid Fight Over Fairness
May 14, 2019
Injured Lungs Can Be Regenerated for Transplant: Study
May 13, 2019
Czech Lawmakers Are Finalizing Draft Amendment to the Organ Transplant Law
May 10, 2019
My Liver, Your Kidney: the World’s First Non-Identical Organ Swap
(New Scientist) – So Deveza came up with a different plan. In 2017 she instigated the world’s first paired exchange of different organs between living donors, swapping half her liver for someone else’s kidney. A case study of the organ … Read More
May 8, 2019
The Kidney Brokers: Yemeni Organs Sold for $5,000 in Egypt
(Al Jazeera) – An Egyptian hospital and officials at the Yemeni embassy in Cairo were involved in a large-scale organ-trafficking ring from 2014 that included hundreds of patients and brokers from Yemen and Egypt, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed. … Read More
May 6, 2019
Belgium Passes Law to Penalize Medical Tourism for Organ Transplants
(The Epoch Times) – Belgium’s primary legislative body passed a new bill on April 25 that would punish all parties involved in the buying and selling of human organs for commercial purposes. Violators face up to 20 years imprisonment with … Read More
May 6, 2019
Discarded No More: HCV-Infected Organs Advance Transplantation
(Medscape) – Many of the HCV-positive donor organs are from drug overdose deaths, which have increased from 7 to 21 per 100,000 persons between 1999 and 2016. But if these potential donors otherwise meet the standard criteria for donation, this … Read More
May 3, 2019
Death by Organ Donation: Euthanizing Patients for Their Organs Gains Frightening Traction
(USA Today) – At international medical conferences in 2018 and 2019, I listened as hundreds of transplant and critical care physicians discussed “donation after death.” This refers to the rapidly expanding scenario in Canada and some Western European countries whereby … Read More
April 30, 2019
In a World First, Drone Delivers Kidney for Transplant
(U.S. News & World Report) – In what researchers are calling a groundbreaking achievement, an unmanned drone delivered a new kidney for a 44-year-old Baltimore woman. On April 19, the aircraft delivered the donor kidney that was successfully transplanted by … Read More
April 23, 2019
Hospital Sues over New National Liver Transplant Policy
(Medical Xpress) – Hospitals and patients have sued to block a new nationwide liver transplant policy that they say will waste viable livers, lead to fewer transplants and likely cause deaths. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and … Read More
April 23, 2019
China Executes Prisoners for Organ Transplants
(Medical Daily) – A recent report revealed that China has kept a dark medical secret from the rest of the world. It was found that those who had kidney transplants in the country were receiving organs from executed prisoners. Their … Read More
April 8, 2019
Organ Donors with Hepatitis C Eligible for Donating Heart and Lungs, Says Study
(Tech Times) – Donated organs of people who have hepatitis C can be transplanted to patients in need without fear of infection, a new study found. Researchers from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital reported that they were able to prevent … Read More
April 3, 2019
Do Animals Hold the Key to the Global Organ Shortage?
(The Guardian) – Researchers in South Korea are expected to transplant pig corneasinto humans within a year. A handful of groups across the US are also working toward pig organ clinical trials in the next few years, including a group … Read More
April 3, 2019
Nova Scotia Set to Be First in North America with Presumed Consent for Organ Donation
(The Globe and Mail) – The words tattooed on Cindy Ryan’s left forearm are a constant reminder of the importance of organ donation in her life: “Recycle Yourself – Together We Live On.” A two-time liver transplant recipient, Ms. Ryan … Read More
March 28, 2019
World’s First Living Donor HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant Delivers Hope
(UPI) – The world’s first kidney transplantation from a person living with HIV to a recipient also living with HIV took place on Monday. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine performed the procedure on Nina Martinez, a 35-year-old woman living with … Read More
March 26, 2019
A New Edition of Clinical Ethics Is Now Available
Clinical Ethics (vol. 13, no. 4, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ambiguity, Death Determination, and the Dead Donor Rule” by Will Lyon “The Zone of Parental Discretion and the Complexity of Paediatrics: A Response to Alderson” … Read More
March 6, 2019
Japan Relaxes Rules on iPS Cell Research, Potentially Paving Way for Growth of Human Organs in Animals
(The Japan Times) – The green light has been given to a controversial research process that involves implanting human stem cells inside animals and could eventually lead to growing human organs for transplant inside animal hosts. The decision by the … Read More
February 21, 2019
Child Donors’ Psychological Risk Unknown
(Medical Xpress) – Harvesting of marrow or blood stem cells has no therapeutic benefit for the donor child, says Dr. Shin-Ning Then from QUT’s School of Law in her new book Children as Tissue Donors: Regulatory Protection, Medical Ethics and … Read More
