October 5, 2018
(The Conversation) – About a year ago we made a tough call of our own: we could save a child’s life by giving the child a liver transplant – but risked infecting the child with HIV in the process. The … Read More
September 19, 2018
(Science Alert) – It’s a devastating case that serves as the medical warning we didn’t even know we needed. An organ donor didn’t just pass on her kidneys, lungs, liver, and heart to five desperate recipients – she also unknowingly … Read More
September 18, 2018
(STAT News) – We specialize in kidney transplantation. In the United States, about 20,000 kidney transplants are performed each year, too slow a pace for the 95,000 Americans waiting for new kidneys. Getting a donor kidney is a yearslong wait, … Read More
September 17, 2018
(UPI) – The scoring system used to determine who has priority for receiving a liver transplant disadvantages children compared to adults, a study published Monday indicates. People in need of a liver transplant are put on one of two national … Read More
August 21, 2018
(Pew Research) – Almost six-in-ten Americans (57%) consider it an appropriate use of technology to genetically engineer animals to grow organs or tissues that could be used for humans needing a transplant, while 41% say this would be going too … Read More
August 17, 2018
(BBC) – A potential treatment for sudden liver failure could cut the need for transplants, say scientists at the University of Edinburgh. The liver has an incredible natural ability to repair itself, but this can be lost in some injuries … Read More
August 6, 2018
(The Washington Post) – A government legal opinion has dashed the hopes of an upstart nonprofit organization that wants to take over operation of the nation’s organ transplant network. Organs for Life, a new nonprofit critical of the way the … Read More
July 30, 2018
(The Epoch Times) – In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party began a campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, a spiritual practice with 70 million to 100 million adherents in China. The world’s governments and human rights and other civil society … Read More
July 25, 2018
(The Conversation) – In surely one of the most bizarre stories of recent weeks, former FC Barcelona president, Sandro Rosell, was forced to deny claims that he illegally purchased a human liver for ex-Barcelona defender Eric Abidal in 2012, after … Read More
July 19, 2018
(The Guardian) – De La Mode is one of hundreds of patients from the UK’s black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities who are forced to wait longer than the majority of white patients due to a paucity of suitable … Read More
July 19, 2018
Bioethics (vol. 32, no. 5, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Conscience Claims, Metaphysics, and Avoiding an LGBT Eugenic” by Abram Brummett “Regret, Shame, and Denials of Women’s Voluntary Sterilization” by Dianne Lalonde “Empathy, Social Media, and … Read More
July 18, 2018
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 18, no. 2, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Power Difference and Risk Perception: Mapping Vulnerability within the Decision Process of Pregnant Women towards Clinical Trial Participation in an Urban Middle-Income Setting” by Geerte … Read More
July 17, 2018
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 378, no. 20, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Addressing Generic-Drug Market Failures — The Case for Establishing a Nonprofit Manufacturer” by D. Liljenquist, G. Bai, and G.F. Anderson “HIV … Read More
July 16, 2018
(Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Thursday convicted 37 people on charges related to illicit trading in human organs and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years in jail, witnesses said. The Cairo Criminal Court also … Read More
July 12, 2018
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 44, no. 6, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Face Transplantation for the Blind: More Than Being Blind in a Sighted World” by Joseph Lee “From Whom Do Physicians Obtain Consent for Surgery?” … Read More
July 11, 2018
(CNN) – The call, it turned out, was to let him know that the hospital where he hoped to get a new kidney and pancreas was temporarily shutting down its transplant program. This time, he found himself on the other … Read More
July 11, 2018
Journal of Law and the Biosciences (vol. 5, no. 1, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Critique of National Solidarity in Transnational Organ Sharing in Europe” by Konstantin Tretyakov “Cutting Edges and Weaving Threads in the Gene … Read More
July 11, 2018
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 44, no. 5, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Moral Narcissism and Moral Complicity in Global Health and Humanitarian Aid” by Mark Sheehan “Institute of Medical Ethics Guidelines for Confirmation of Appointment, Promotion … Read More
July 10, 2018
(New York Times) – Doctors kept her alive with a cumbersome machine that did the work of her heart and lungs. The physicians moved her from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was born, to Boston Children’s Hospital and decided to … Read More
July 9, 2018
(Deutsche Welle) – The authors of a report published Friday in the German medical journal Ärzteblatt claim that although more German citizens are willing to donate their organs upon death, fewer organs are actually being transplanted. The authors, Kevin Schulte and … Read More
July 5, 2018
(ProPublica) – In May, an investigation by ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle revealed that the once-renowned program performed an outsized number of transplants resulting in deaths in recent years and has lost several top physicians. Those issues surfaced after the … Read More
July 2, 2018
(Medical Xpress) – This may sanction existing prejudices and widen inequalities in selection process, warn researchers. The availability of a supportive network of family and friends is a key factor in deciding on a person’s suitability for an organ transplant, … Read More
June 29, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – Bioprinting tissue isn’t a new idea. 3-D printers can make human skin, even retinas. Yet the method, so far, has been limited to tissues that are very small or very thin and lack blood vessels. United … Read More
June 29, 2018
(Quartz) – Figures published for 2017 reveal that 2,183 people in Spain became organ donors last year after they died. That’s 46.9 per million people in the population (pmp)—a standard way of measuring the rate of donation in a country. … Read More
June 27, 2018
(Yahoo!) – Biotech 3D printing startup BioLife4D has successfully produced human tissue in the form of a cardiac patch, the company announced on Monday, bringing it one step closer to printing organs viable for transplant. “What’s interesting about this is … Read More
