November 14, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Doctors say that Richard Slayman’s body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology. A historic medical accomplishment that ended in tragedy may yet have a silver lining. Doctors say that Richard … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Wired) – San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone marrow in recent months. A donor must have closely matched genes for human leukocyte antigens, or HLA, to be … Read More
November 6, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 1, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 15, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Tissue-engineering techniques are in the works to regrow heart muscle after a heart attack and repair lungs and other organs It is hard to mend a broken heart, but in a few years doctors might be … Read More
October 28, 2024
(Associated Press) – Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people revoking organ donor registrations, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead. It happened in 2021 and while details are … Read More
October 17, 2024
(NPR) – Martin was not assigned to the operating room that day, but she says she thought she might get drafted. So she started to review case notes from earlier in the day. She became alarmed when she read that … Read More
October 17, 2024
(Associated Press) – People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes as the U.S. government moves to expand the practice. That could shorten the wait for organs … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Chicago Sun Times) – After facing colorectal cancer for nearly eight years, Mandy Wilk got a double-lung transplant in June at Northwestern. She has no signs of cancer in her body and has not needed further cancer treatments. At that … Read More
September 20, 2024
(HHS Press Release) – Today, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the Department of Health and Hunan Services (HHS) announced the first ever multi-vendor contract awards to modernize the nation’s organ transplant system to improve transparency, performance, governance, … Read More
September 16, 2024
(The Guardian) – As a legal academic, I have been investigating the global trade in organs since 2014. Over the past 10 years, I have spoken to 43 people from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea who sold a kidney out … Read More
September 3, 2024
(NBC News) – Four people have received hearts or kidneys from pigs. Some of their relatives recount a roller coaster of hope and uncertainty. Three other patients have followed in Bennett Sr.’s footsteps and received pig organs, most recently a … Read More
August 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Venture capitalist Tristan Mace wants to improve the way organs are donated and how recipients fare Mace needed a heart transplant. His desperate condition catapulted him to the top of the transplant list, and he got a … Read More
August 28, 2024
(ABC News) – People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that … Read More
August 26, 2024
(NPR) – More than 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant. But an ongoing kidney shortage means a thousand people a month are removed from the waitlist, either because they die while waiting for a kidney … Read More
August 22, 2024
(Vox) – For some time now, independent analysts and investigative reporters have argued that OPOs [Organ Procurement Organizations] are underusing deceased donor organs by the tens of thousands. One report from 2019 estimated that every year 28,000 usable organs (mostly … Read More
August 19, 2024
(Axios) – Women who received uterus transplants have delivered more than 70 infants worldwide since the first successful transplant in 2011, with 20 cases at a Texas medical center showing about the same success rate as with natural wombs, per … Read More
August 15, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 24, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted … Read More
July 10, 2024
(ABC News) – A Massachusetts man can speak again after surgeons removed his cancerous voice box and replaced it with a donated one, a pioneering move Transplants of the so-called voice box are extremely rare, and normally aren’t an option … Read More
July 10, 2024
(New York Times) – Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said. The patient, Lisa Pisano, was critically ill, suffering from … Read More
July 8, 2024
(NPR) – About half of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations have already started using NRP and more are planning to start soon, according to the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. But NRP has sparked an intense ethical debate. The … Read More
June 25, 2024
(CBS News) – Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, felt no pain during the May 24 procedure and was discharged the … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Psychology Today) – Every year in the United States more than 11,000 people die while waiting for transplantable organs. Although efforts have been made to transplant genetically modified pig organs into humans, the practice is not yet widespread nor are outcomes magnificent. To save … Read More
May 29, 2024
(Aeon) – Six hours she had been officially dead. Six times had the hour hand on the clock moved – and she had lain dead. Now she had re-entered the world of the living. I would support her blood pressure … Read More
