http://www.bioethics.net/rss/organ.xml bioethics news everyday from bioethics.net/American Journal of Bioethics Copyright 2005 bioethics.net Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:56:12 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/ http://www.bioethics.net/images/logo_frontpage_wht.gif 60 200 webmaster@bioethics.net newsupdate@bioethics.net en-us http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7378 A new study seems to knock down some of the ethical objections to paying people to donate an organ. The study authors are with the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:56:12 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7376 In the hope of expanding a controversial form of organ donation into emergency rooms around the United States, a federally funded project has begun trying to obtain kidneys, livers and possibly other body parts from car-accident victims, heart-attack fatalities and other urgent-care patients. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:14:09 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7371 Israel is launching a potentially trailblazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card, and you and your family moves up in line for a transplant if one is needed. The new law is the first of its kind in the world, and international medical authorities are eager to see if it boosts organ supply. But it has also raised resistance from within Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:18:46 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7329 Should people be paid to donate bone marrow? About 20,000 bone marrow transplants are performed annually in the USA to treat blood disorders such as leukemia and anemia, and in up to 30% of cases, the donor is a relative, usually a sibling. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:26:54 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7294 lthough several rackets have been busted in Tamil Nadu and many reports, including in some leading medical journals like The Lancet, have indicated that there have been sale of organs, no doctor or hospital has ever been proved guilty. The licences of at least 15 hospitals have been withdrawn and suspension notices issued by the directorate of medical services, particularly after the state health department unearthed a kidney trade where the survivors of the December 2004 tsunami were donors. The Kovai Medical Centre and Research Institute, which has been issued suspension this time, was among them. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:06:30 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7235 Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:13:33 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7177 Among the thousands of Americans with leukemia and other serious health conditions who are on waiting lists for bone marrow donations, there are some who are willing — and can afford — to pay for the marrow that could save their lives. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:25:44 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7148 Widespread coverage has been given to reports that the first human womb transplant could take place within two years. Most newspapers said that research presented at an American fertility conference gives hope to thousands of women who are unable to give birth because they have a damaged uterus, had it removed through disease or because they were born without one. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:38:09 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7132 A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in kidneys and other organs and potentially life-saving tissues and cells, according to a joint study by the United Nations and the Council of Europe released Tuesday. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:46 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7101 It's against the law in most countries, including the United States, to buy or sell human organs for transplant. But that doesn't mean organ sales don't happen, as evidenced by the recent story of organ-brokering uncovered as part of a larger corruption scandal in New York and New Jersey. Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:23:22 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7080 WHEN Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, appeared in public recently for the first time in months, he revealed that he had received a liver transplant from the victim of a car crash. “I wouldn’t be here without such generosity,” Mr. Jobs said, adding that he hoped that many people would become organ donors. Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:24:56 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=7056 At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant. But consider this: The kidney he received was 69. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:49:28 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6962 Surgeons in Birmingham have carried out five life-saving transplant operations from two donors in under 24 hours in a European first. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:39:23 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6959 China launched an overhaul targeting illegal organ transplants, after reports surfaced that some hospitals were illegally doing organ surgeries for foreigners. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:35:51 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6957 Tony Huesman, the world's longest living heart transplant recipient died Sunday at age 51, as a result of complications related to cancer. Diagnosed with cardiomyopathy at the age of 16, Huesman received his transplant in 1978 at Stanford University Hospital, where he was one of the first people in the program pioneered by Dr. Norman Shumway. The transplant took place just 11 years following the world's first heart transplant performed in South Africa. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:31:52 EDT