February 18, 2019
(Wired) – Consent in hand transplants is devilishly slippery: Can a person who has lost a hand properly weigh the allure of soon regaining such a vital part of themself against the seemingly distant probabilities of suffering treatment’s possible harms? … Read More
February 11, 2019
(The Guardian) – Dawitt’s story is more common than statistics suggest. According to a 2018 report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected data on 700 incidents of organ trafficking, primarily from north Africa and the Middle … Read More
February 8, 2019
(PBS) – What happens if you need a kidney transplant and don’t know someone who is a biological match? A Nobel prize-winning economist has a solution: transplant chains. Donors agree to give to a stranger in exchange for a kidney … Read More
February 6, 2019
(The Guardian) – A world-first study has called for the mass retraction of more than 400 scientific papers on organ transplantation, amid fears the organs were obtained unethically from Chinese prisoners. The Australian-led study exposes a mass failure of English … Read More
February 4, 2019
(CNBC) – Now researchers, doctors and policymakers are exploring new strategies to increase the supply of organs needed to meet demand. Among the promising pursuits: advancing stem cell research in an effort to heal damaged organ tissue; developing biofabrication techniques … Read More
February 4, 2019
(News.com.au) – The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico of “natural causes” has been flown home with missing organs, prompting his widow to speak out. The 35-year-old (known only as Mr Kim) leaves behind two children and … Read More
January 31, 2019
(U.S. News & World Report) – The supply of donor organs for infants needing a heart transplant is critically low, but researchers have taken a first step toward using pig hearts to fill the need. The concept of using animal … Read More
January 24, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – An estimated 17,000 Americans are on the waiting list for a liver transplant, and there’s a strong chance that many of them have alcohol-associated liver disease. ALD now edges out hepatitis C as the No. 1 … Read More
January 21, 2019
(The Atlantic) – In the early days of liver transplantation, saving patients with alcoholic liver disease was generally considered an inappropriate use of such a limited resource. Yet now that the practice has been supported by data showing that outcomes … Read More
January 21, 2019
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 15, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Strategies to Guide the Return of Genomic Research Findings: An Australian Perspective” by Lisa Eckstein and Margaret Otlowski “Medicolegal Complications of Apnoea Testing for … Read More
January 18, 2019
(NPR) – Each organ responds to transplant in a different way. “The liver will start pouring bile. The lungs start essentially breathing,” Mezrich says. “Maybe the most dramatic organ, of course, is the heart, because you put it in and … Read More
January 18, 2019
Journal of Law and the Biosciences (vol. 5, no. 2, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Clash at the Petri Dish: Transferring Embryos with Known Genetic Anomalies” by Judith Daar “The Tyranny of Choice: Reproductive Selection in … Read More
January 18, 2019
The New Bioethics (vol. 24, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Neurostructure of Morality and the Hubris of Memory Manipulation” by Peter A. DePergola II “Head Transplantation: The Immune System, Phantom Sensations, and the Integrated … Read More
January 17, 2019
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 18, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “African Perspectives in Global Bioethics” by Mbih Jerome Tosam “African Communal Basis for Autonomy and Life Choices” by Polycarp Ikuenobe “Reconciling Female Genital Circumcision with … Read More
January 15, 2019
(ABC News) – A Houston hospital has removed its president and several other leaders following an unusually high number of patient deaths, a loss of some federal funding and a recent case in which a patient died after receiving a … Read More
January 11, 2019
Clinical Ethics (vol. 13, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Ethical Concerns of Seeking Consent from Critically Ill, Mechanically Ventilated Patients for Research – A Matter of Possessing Capacity or Surrogate Insight” by Avelino … Read More
January 11, 2019
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 44, no. 10, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “When Slippery Slope Arguments Miss the Mark: A Lesson from One Against Physician-Assisted Death” by Eric Blackstone and Stuart J Youngner “Transplants for Non-Lethal … Read More
January 10, 2019
(Eurekalert) – Should death be defined in strictly biological terms — as the body’s failure to maintain integrated functioning of respiration, blood circulation, and neurological activity? Should death be declared on the basis of severe neurological injury even when biological … Read More
January 4, 2019
(Medical Xpress) – Should death be defined in strictly biological terms—as the body’s failure to maintain integrated functioning of respiration, blood circulation, and neurological activity? Should death be declared on the basis of severe neurological injury even when biological functions … Read More
January 4, 2019
Bioethics (vol. 32, no. 7, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “When is Coercive Methadone Therapy Justified?” by Daniel D’Hotman, Jonathan Pugh, and Thomas Douglas “Return to Childhood? Against the Infantilization of People with Dementia” by Karin … Read More
December 27, 2018
(The Epoch Times) – A new round of chilling phone calls reveals that live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners continues in China at a variety of leading transplant centers in different regions of the country. The conversations, with doctors … Read More
December 20, 2018
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Split through the middle, he is one of the poster boys of the Real Bodies exhibition. Almost perfectly preserved via plastination, millions of visitors to the blockbuster anatomy show have been able to stare into his … Read More
December 18, 2018
Digital Health has new articles available online. Articles include: “Problematic Smartphone Use: Digital Approaches to an Emerging Public Health Problem” by Michelle H van Velthoven, John Powell, and Georgina Powell “Effectiveness and Impact of Networked Communication Interventions in Young People … Read More
December 14, 2018
(Quartz) – Dolfina is one of the many women who fall victim to human trafficking in Malaysia, a top destination for Indonesian migrant workers. More than half of the estimated 1.9 million Indonesians in Malaysia are undocumented. Accompanied by a … Read More
December 7, 2018
(The Washington Post) – The organization that controls the distribution of livers for transplant revised its controversial allocation policy for the second time in a year, further limiting transplant centers’ access to organs collected in their areas. The new plan … Read More
