http://www.bioethics.net/rss/organ.xml bioethics news everyday from bioethics.net/American Journal of Bioethics Copyright 2005 bioethics.net Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:25:44 EST 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=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 http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6919 One of those arrested in July's extraordinary New Jersey roundup of mayors, legislators and others for alleged money laundering and corruption was a Brooklyn man accused of trying to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant operation. The accused allegedly boasted that he had brokered many such sales. This brought on the usual outcries over the need to crack down--including leveling stiffer penalties--on the selling of human body parts and organs. There is a much better--and infinitely more humane--way to deal with this problem Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:39:20 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6906 Surgeons at two Washington hospitals have performed seven kidney transplants involving 14 recipients and donors who did not match, using a process that virtually eliminates the chances of organ rejection.The process, called plasmapheresis, can make it easier for underserved African-American patients to receive organs for transplant. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:10:45 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6896 A policy which sees the UK share organ donations with the EU has been criticised by some people on the transplant waiting list. In the past 10 years the UK has sent more than 300 organs to other EU states, but received only 120 in return. Stewart Rankin, from Rogerstone, near Newport, believes that the disparity has added 50% to his three-year wait for a new heart. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:02:45 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6878 The UK government says it will ban all private transplants of organs from dead donors in the UK. The move comes after media reports of overseas patients paying to get onto the waiting list for organs donated by British people. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:49:53 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6874 I was as upset as anyone by the allegations of organ selling that are associated with a New Jersey corruption scandal resulting in more than 40 arrests last week. But a Wall Street Journal column this week calling for more incentives for folks to donate organs makes the issue seem more complex than at first blush. "More than 80,000 Americans now wait for a kidney . . . thirteen of them die daily; the rest languish for years on dialysis," writes Sally Satel. She says she would have gladly considered paying an organ broker to get a kidney several years back when she needed one and there was no donor. That is, if it hadn't been illegal. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:45:13 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=6870 Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has confirmed that 14-year-old Hannah Jones, from Marden, near Hereford, is one of its patients. Her mother, Kirsty, said the operation had been completed and doctors believed it had been successful. Hannah, whose heart has been weakened by medication for leukaemia, initially refused a transplant, saying she wanted to die with dignity. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:12:52 EDT