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
July 23, 2015
(Time) – Two sting videos that claim to implicate Planned Parenthood in the illegal practice to selling fetal tissue for a profit prompted a Congressional investigation of the organization. But it doesn’t mean that research on fetal tissue is wrong. … Read More
July 22, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Scientists have successfully used stem cells to grow fully functional bile ducts in the lab, which could one day help prevent liver tissue damage. Bile ducts are vital to enabling the liver to dispose of waste; malfunctioning … Read More
July 22, 2015
(Digital Journal) – A serious documentary investigation into the recent mass murder of prisoners of conscience through organ transplantation in China will be released in the U.S. late 2015, less than one year before the World Transplant Congress is to … Read More
July 22, 2015
(Daily Mail) – The Karnataka Police have busted a major kidney racket and 13 people have been arrested so far from different parts of the state. The arrests took place after five victims came forward complaining that they have been … Read More
July 21, 2015
(CNN) – An anti-abortion group says a second under cover video proves that Planned Parenthood is selling the body parts of aborted fetuses, a practice that is illegal and that the group denies doing. The Center for Medical Progress, an … Read More
July 21, 2015
(UPI) – Researchers restored function to livers in mice by using stem cell transplants to regenerate them, the first time such a procedure has been done in a living animal. If human liver stem cells behave the same way as … Read More
July 16, 2015
(Vox) – A new sting video from an anti-abortion group shows a Planned Parenthood executive discussing how the organization provides fetal organs and tissues to researchers. But it also opens a debate that split bioethicists decades ago: Is it ethical to … Read More
June 29, 2015
(The Globe and Mail) – In late April, seven-month-old Delfina Budziak moved into Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to wait for a donation to replace her failing liver. Less than three weeks later, her father, Peter Budziak, heard from a … Read More
June 29, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – A group of doctors, lawyers, and international activists met in the Palais des Nations, the headquarters of the U.N., to review what they said was mass murder carried out by the Chinese regime, and called upon … Read More
June 26, 2015
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 40, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Inquiry in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine: Organ donation, defining death, and fairness in distribution” by Victor Saenz “Citizenship: Bioethics … Read More
June 25, 2015
(Forbes) – It was wonderful for Jobs and his loved ones that he was able to receive a transplant that day. But was it fair that Jobs could afford to charter a jet from California to Tennessee to undergo a … Read More
June 24, 2015
(PR Newswire) – Six months after the People’s Republic of China announced to end the forced harvesting of organs from prisoners, an international panel of physicians, scholars, and activists will convene to examine China’s failure to fulfill that announcement, especially … Read More
June 23, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – Taiwan’s Parliament has made amendments to its organ transplantation law that would have the effect of criminalizing the transplantation of organs from executed prisoners in China, part of a global trend to halt the trafficking of … Read More
June 12, 2015
(The Washington Post) – The recipient of the world’s first successful penis transplant will soon be a father, according to the South African outlet News24. His surgeons were recently informed that his girlfriend is pregnant. The surgery took place just six … Read More
June 12, 2015
(The Conversation) – The Australian government has commissioned a private consultancy to review the country’s poor organ donation rates. While the review may make some interesting observations, the answer to increasing the rate is already clear: we need to better … Read More
June 12, 2015
(People) – A Tennessee prison inmate is asking the state for the right to die to save his ailing parents. Kenneth Thomas, 37, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 murder of a man killed during a Nashville … Read More
June 11, 2015
(AsiaOne) – Patients receiving illegal organ transplants overseas will be facing a maximum of five years in prison and a NT$300,000 (S$13,000) fine if amendments to the Human Organ Transplantation Act pass the Legislative Yuan, which is likely to happen, … Read More
June 9, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Bone Marrow Transplant Program have recently published findings from a phase 2 clinical trial that demonstrate lymphocyte recovery in related and unrelated stem cell transplant recipients generally falls into three patterns … Read More
June 5, 2015
(The Conversation) – Australia’s organ donation levels are low by international standards. At least twenty countries achieve better donation rates than Australia’s 16.1 donors per million population (DPMP), including Belgium (29.9 DPMP), the United States (25.9), France (25.5) and the … Read More
June 4, 2015
(UPI) – A 55-year-old software developer is the recipient of the first ever skull and scalp transplant, which was completed while the patient also received kidney and pancreas transplants. James Boysen received the transplants following the successful treatment of leiomyosarcoma, … Read More
June 3, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – An interview with Dr. Robert Hickey SBB: Bob, we’re interested in learning more about the international trade in human organs for transplant. Much research has been done to reveal it as a major international industry, you … Read More
May 29, 2015
(The Guardian) – A woman has met the man who received the face of her dead brother in a groundbreaking transplant. Rebekah Aversano saw – and touched – the transplanted face for the first time in an emotional meeting with … Read More
May 28, 2015
(Medical News Today) – New technology could ‘significantly’ improve stem cell transplant outcomes, new research by the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan has revealed. The promising technology has the potential to ‘revolutionise’ the field of tissue (or HLA) typing, according … Read More
May 25, 2015
(Forbes) – Eugene Melnyk is 55 years-old and suffering from late-stage liver disease. His doctors say that he needs a transplant if he is to have any chance of living to see his birthday later this month. Like many people … Read More
