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
December 5, 2018
(The New York Times) – A woman who received a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a healthy child, researchers in Brazil said on Tuesday. It is the first such birth to be reported. Uterine transplants … Read More
December 5, 2018
(The Scientist) – Hearts taken from pigs engineered so the organs won’t produce extreme immune reactions if transplanted into humans or other primates can support the life of recipient baboons for up to 195 days, according to a report in … Read More
December 5, 2018
(Australian Broadcasting Co) – The criminal masterminds behind the illegal trade of human body parts raked in $2.3 billion around the globe last year. About 12,000 organs were sold on the black market, and while the majority of those exchanges … Read More
December 4, 2018
(New York Times) – Virtually all of the nation’s more than 250 transplant centers, which refer patients to a single national registry, require patients to verify how they will cover bills that can total $400,000 for a kidney transplant or … Read More
November 14, 2018
(Bloomberg) – Doctors believe they’ve found an answer for patients like Romero in a protein that is produced by lethal bacteria. The protein, which temporarily wipes out antibodies, was crafted into an experimental drug called imlifidase to give donated organs … Read More
November 13, 2018
(Medical Xpress) – The wait for a heart transplant varies widely based on factors such as availability of donor hearts and blood type, but little is known about differences in wait times based on race and ethnicity. Now, preliminary research … Read More
November 5, 2018
(Daily Mail) – Three people have been detained in central China for stealing a dead patient’s eyeballs from a hospital mortuary, Chinese media reported. The man, surnamed Li, died of organ failure on Tuesday morning at Ningxiang People’s Hospital in … Read More
October 29, 2018
(UPI) – Obese patients in need of a kidney transplant may find themselves denied because of their weight, but a new study says that shouldn’t happen in all cases. Researchers have found that kidneys given to obese patients fared as … Read More
October 29, 2018
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 18, no. 7, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Uterus Transplantation: The Ethics of Using Deceased Versus Living Donors” by Bethany Bruno and Kavita Shah Arora “Provider Conscientious Refusal of Abortion, … Read More
October 22, 2018
(BBC) – A father of four who died on a family holiday in Egypt was returned to the UK without his heart and kidneys, a legal firm for the family has said. David Humphries, 62, collapsed and died while in Makadi, … Read More
October 18, 2018
(Forbes) – The event was the third such event organized at the U.K. Parliament. One of the issues on the agenda was the claim that the Chinese government is killing prisoners of conscience (particularly, religious minorities, including Falun Gong, Tibetan … Read More
