July 21, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Across the country, there are 58 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), which are responsible for recovering and distributing organs and tissues for life-saving and life-enhancing transplants. Each OPO is designated to serve a specific geographic area and works … Read More
July 20, 2017
(Quartz) – Swiss researchers have come a step closer to building to a better artificial heart. It’s a squishy prototype that’s 3D-printed from silicone. This soft artificial heart also has a chamber that fills up and deflates, mimicking the muscle … Read More
July 20, 2017
(The Guardian) – After almost 11 hours of surgery involving four teams of doctors, Zion Harvey had earned his place in medical history. The eight-year-old had become the first child in the world to receive two new hands in a … Read More
July 13, 2017
(Science) – Wartman’s condition is severe but not unusual. GVHD affects up to half of the more than 30,000 people worldwide each year who receive an immune system transplanted from a donor, as either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem … Read More
July 13, 2017
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 17, no. 5, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Caring for Patients or Organs: New Therapies Raise New Dilemmas in the Emergency Department” by Arjun Prabhu, Lisa S. Parker, and Michael … Read More
July 12, 2017
(BBC) – More than 50,000 people in the UK are alive today because of organ transplantation, new data suggests. NHS Blood and Transplant said that figure included 36,300 kidney patients, 9,800 given livers, 1,900 who received a pancreas, and 1,000 … Read More
July 5, 2017
(Reuters) – Artificial heart maker Carmat is hoping a more energy-efficient implant and the appointment of a production chief can help it overcome recent failures at the French firm. Carmat won clearance from the French medicines agency to resume an … Read More
June 28, 2017
(Yahoo! News) – When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two illegal kidney transplants, the local donors and Omani clients still unconscious on the tables. The doctors were allowed to … Read More
June 26, 2017
(The Wall Street Journal) – In the past few years, scientists have made significant progress in their efforts to free patients from insulin therapy. Researchers have learned more about how to generate insulin-producing cells in a laboratory and place them … Read More
June 26, 2017
(NPR) – Their relationship brought Grubbs face to face with the dilemmas of kidney transplantation — and the racial biases she found to be embedded in the way donated kidneys are allocated. Robert Phillips, who eventually became her husband, had … Read More
June 19, 2017
(The Verge) – But we might be able to get around some of these issues with advances in genome editing. Just a few months ago, scientists debuted the world’s first human-pig chimeras, or pig embryos injected with human stem cells. … Read More
June 5, 2017
(News.com.au) – Researchers say China is home to the most rampant illegal organ trade in the world and is the number one destination for ‘transplant tourism’. The practice sees desperate people — from countries where waiting lists are longer than … Read More
May 31, 2017
(PBS Newshour) – A controversy was brewing. Delmonico, a leading voice on ethical organ transplantation, had planned a February 2017 summit in Rome for representatives of more than 40 countries to discuss the ethics of transplanting organs and to sign … Read More
May 30, 2017
(Science Daily) – New treatment strategies over the last few decades have meant that nowadays 95% of transplanted kidneys function well for at least one year and that the average lifespan of a transplanted organ is between 10 and 15 … Read More
May 25, 2017
(Slate) – For transplant centers, these occasional, often social media–driven spikes of interest can be difficult, partly because they’re rarely set up to screen dozens of calls that can come in when a story finds wider notice. With the clock … Read More
May 2, 2017
(Pakistan Today) – In the light of a recent incident in a posh housing society where doctors were carrying out a kidney transplant, illegally, Professor Dr Saeed Akhtar, President and CEO PKLI and Transplantation Society of Pakistan held a press … Read More
May 1, 2017
JAMA (vol. 317, no. 14, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Risk of Expanding the Uninsured Population by Repealing the Affordable Care Act” by Adam E. M. Eltorai amd Mahmoud I. Eltorai “Achieving Universal Coverage Without Turning to … Read More
April 27, 2017
(Reuters) – Trade in illegal organs is a booming business in Lebanon as desperate Syrian refugees resort to selling body parts to support themselves and their families, according to an investigation by the BBC. A trafficker who brokers deals from … Read More
April 27, 2017
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “A Critique of the Regulation of Data Science in Healthcare Research in the European Union” by John M. M. Rumbold and Barbara K. Pierscionek “Fair Is Fair: We Must Re-Allocate … Read More
April 24, 2017
(The Kathmandu Post) – With the changing time, new methods are found to be used by the human smugglers and rackets to create a ground for trafficking in persons and smuggling of human organs. With the changing time, new methods … Read More
April 20, 2017
(The Epoch Times) – The city of Vienna became the first European capital to echo a European Parliament resolution which censures the Chinese regime for its organ harvesting crimes recently. The Vienna Provincial Parliament “condemns the systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting … Read More
April 13, 2017
(Reuters) – Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans. Routine pig-human … Read More
April 12, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – An estimated 10 percent of all patients undergoing euthanasia in Belgium could potentially donate at least one organ, according to a study published by JAMA. The practice of organ donation after euthanasia is controversial and currently only … Read More
April 3, 2017
(CNN) – A rise in the use of medical marijuana has spurred a debate about organ transplantation, and it’s changing some laws across the nation. Garry Godfrey found out in 2010 that he was removed from an organ transplant waiting … Read More
March 24, 2017
(Quartz) – How should we respond to chimeras when we are uncertain of their moral status? At present, chimeras created in laboratories are destroyed as embryos. But in order to harvest organs, full gestation would be needed. When that happens, … Read More
