September 2, 2015
(Medscape) – Strict adherence to screening guidelines for organ transplantation and effective communication can prevent the spread of Strongyloides stercoralis, according to research from the New York Organ Donor Network. The intestinal parasite is carried by an estimated 100 million people … Read More
September 1, 2015
(MIT Technology Review) – Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to “reanimate” hearts from people who have recently died, and use the organs to save others. The “heart in a box” is a wheeled cart with … Read More
September 1, 2015
(Scientific American) – In the days following a lung transplant, a condition known as primary graft dysfunction can prevent the organ from properly taking in and circulating oxygen. The disorder afflicts 10 to 25% of patients, studies estimate. It proves lethal nearly half … Read More
August 27, 2015
(ABC.net) – If you could save ten people, at little or no cost to you, would you do it? If someone is willing to be an organ donor, should they get preference in the event that they need an organ … Read More
August 24, 2015
(CNN) – A group targeting Planned Parenthood released another video Friday that purports to show the controversial organization breaking federal laws in its abortion procedures. The heavily edited two-minute video, from The Center for Medical Progress, is part of the … Read More
August 24, 2015
(PR Newswire) – China announced to end organ harvesting from executed prisoners in December 2014 and presented an allegedly operational organ donation system in unrealistic record time. Some international medical organizations rubber-stamped this initiative and within eight months rushed to … Read More
August 21, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – Some of the most prestigious and reputable medical groups in the world are about to give their stamp of approval to an organ transplantation system that, critics argue, still allows the use of vital organs harvested … Read More
August 17, 2015
(Arab News) – Iranian interference in the domestic affairs of Arab countries has destroyed the economic condition of the Iranian people as some of them have resorted to selling their organs to make ends meet. The Iranian central bank announced … Read More
August 17, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Meanwhile, here is another story: xenotransplantation research. Advances suggest that in the future people who need organ transplants could look forward to more encouraging numbers for those placed on waiting lists. Such activity is being carried out … Read More
August 14, 2015
(The Guardian) – The anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress has released a sixth video alleging that Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly handled fetal tissue samples, part of an ongoing series of videos used as ammunition to defund the healthcare organization. … Read More
August 14, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – Members of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia were ordered by a Chinese diplomat not to attend a briefing on unethical organ trafficking on Aug. 11, leading David Shoebridge, a member of the Greens party … Read More
August 12, 2015
(BBC) – But his chances of getting a transplant are slim – China suffers from a huge organ shortage. For years it harvested the organs of executed prisoners to help meet demand. Following international condemnation, Beijing says it ended the practice … Read More
August 12, 2015
(MIT Technology Review) – With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have been shattering records in xenotransplantation, or between-species organ transplants. The researchers say they have kept a pig heart … Read More
August 11, 2015
(Sydney Morning Herald) – China has launched an extraordinary bid to prevent NSW MPs from attending a briefing on the international human organ trade at Parliament House by implying that economic cooperation with Australia and NSW could be threatened if they show up. In a … Read More
August 10, 2015
(Times of India) – It is estimated that the process of organ retrieval in 2014 could not be completed at least 50 times even after the families consented to donation, as organ donation after DCD [organ donation after cardiac or … Read More
August 5, 2015
(USA Today) – A federal judge on Monday extended a restraining order that bars abortion opponents from releasing secretly recorded video and audio that allegedly involve discussions of the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses. U.S. District Judge William Orrick … Read More
August 5, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – And on Monday, four leading international rights groups urged the UN to “move from words to deeds and actions” on a long-standing human rights violation in China: organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. It is an … Read More
August 3, 2015
(Times of India) – Thirteen years after the Rs 150-crore Amritsar kidney scam, an organ trade racket has been busted in Jalandhar, with the arrest of five accused including the staffer of a pathology laboratory. It was the high alert … Read More
August 3, 2015
(Reuters) – A political battle over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has been reinvigorated by the release of undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood officials. But the controversy comes just as interest in the use of fetal tissue … Read More
July 31, 2015
(The New York Times) – WE first acquired the stem cells from the red receptacles of a local hospital’s labor and delivery ward, delivered to our lab at the University of Southern California. I would reach into the large medical … Read More
July 31, 2015
(Christian Science Monitor) – The Los Angeles Superior Court has issued a temporary restraining order preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video from a sting investigation of the company StemExpress, which provides fetal tissues for research in conjunction with … Read More
July 31, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase … Read More
July 29, 2015
(UPI) – Doctors in Philadelphia completed the first pediatric double hand transplant on an 8-year-old boy who’d had his hands and feet amputated, in addition to a kidney transplant, after a serious infection when he was 2. A 40-member medical … Read More
July 24, 2015
(Washington Post) – But they also say there may be an unresolvable impasse in the public response: Can or should the leading provider of women’s health care be shut down in a showdown over the moral status of embryonic and … Read More
July 24, 2015
(Times of India) – This is the framework for the 2014 Peabody Award-winning documentary, Human Harvest, by Canadian filmmaker Leon Lee. The film focuses on Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa) practitioners, who are said to be the main victims of … Read More
