March 31, 2023
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 2, 2023) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?” by Emil J. Nielsen Busch and Marius T. Mjaaland
March 23, 2023
(Axios) – From IT failures that cost patients a chance at a life-saving organ to doctors salvaging kidneys from a battered box with tire tracks on it, the nation’s organ transplant system has come to be defined by harrowing anecdotes. … Read More
March 22, 2023
(STAT News) – That promise reassured both me and my family that it was safe to move forward with my donation. The day before my surgery, I signed the forms identifying me as a living kidney donor that would go … Read More
March 22, 2023
(New York Times) – The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would seek to break up the network that has long run the nation’s organ transplant system, as part of a broader modernization effort intended to shorten wait times, … Read More
March 16, 2023
(NBC News) – A novel treatment for certain late-stage lung cancers has succeeded in the first two patients to undergo the operation. Using knowledge learned during the Covid pandemic, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed double lung transplantations … Read More
March 1, 2023
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 18, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Exploitation, Criminalization, and Pecuniary Trade in the Organs of Living People” by Hugh V. McLachlan “Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of … Read More
February 9, 2023
(MedPage Today) – Addressing the wide variation in the performance of organ procurement organizations (OPOs), particularly at individual hospitals, could help to increase the organ supply, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study. Of 931 potential organ donors identified at 13 … Read More
February 8, 2023
(STAT News) – The moment a donor heart is cut off from its blood supply, transplant teams are on a race against the clock to remove it, transport it, and sew it into the recipient, all within four hours. A … Read More
February 8, 2023
(Associated Press) – A proposal to let Massachusetts prisoners donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on inmates desperate for freedom. The bill — which … Read More
January 30, 2023
(Bioethics) – Five countries now permit organ donation after euthanasia, on the basis of respecting donor autonomy. Some now openly consider performing euthanasia itself via organ extraction to better preserve organ viability, albeit in violation of the dead donor rule. … Read More
