http://www.bioethics.net/rss/organ.xml bioethics news everyday from bioethics.net/American Journal of Bioethics Copyright 2005 bioethics.net Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:16 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=8332 A parent's anguished online plea for an organ transplant for her developmentally disabled daughter and new research on kidney transplantation eligibility among elderly patients have refocused attention on the vexing decisions that face physicians who determine which patients are suitable for transplantation. #bioethics Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:16 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8321 Without a new kidney, Jesus Navarro will die. The Oakland man has a willing donor and private insurance to pay for the transplant. But he faces what may be an insurmountable hurdle in the race to save his life: He is an illegal immigrant. #bioethics Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:19:30 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8289 A doctor and not the hospital denied 3-year-old Amelia Rivera a kidney transplant because she suffers from mental disabilities, her parents now say. #bioethics Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:37:04 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8280 Nurses often go above and beyond the call of duty to help patients, but they usually don't go to the lengths Allison Batson did. She donated a kidney to one. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:50:07 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8279 Lisa Belkin discusses a disturbing case of a child denied an organ transplant due to mental impairment. #bioethics Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:49:20 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8263 Three transplants gave severely injured patients completely new faces in 2011. Now the doctors involved have revealed details about the complex cases in the New England Journal of Medicine. #bioethics Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:53:44 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8252 Without treatment to replace his failing kidneys, doctors knew, the man in Bellevue hospital would die. He was also an illegal immigrant. And therefore the organ transplant that would save his life is unavailable to him. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:57:25 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8247 A search for a kidney donor that began on Craigslist.org has led a Miami woman to an operating room. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:18:20 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8241 Including an online poll, both sides of the organ procurement debate state their views. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:42:31 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8237 A ruling from a US federal appeals court means that blood stem cell donors may now receive a form of payment for their donation. A federal law that prohibits payment for organs does not apply to stem cells taken from bone marrow using a new method which avoids the extraction of bone marrow itself, the court said. #bioethics Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:02:28 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8173 Three doctors in China have been arrested for allegedly carrying out illegal organ transplants at a private clinic, local authorities say. #bioethics Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:28:03 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8163 Nuffield Council is recommending that organ donors should have funeral costs covered by the NHS to increase donation. #bioethics Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:52:42 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8158 When Steve Jobs received a liver transplant two years ago, there were approximately 16,000 people on the waiting list. Only 1,581 people received a liver. Steve Jobs was one of them, even though there was no proof that a new liver would stop or even slow Jobs’ cancer. Thus, some commentators have now asked the question: Did Steve Jobs waste a liver? #bioethics Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:53:59 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8140 Surgeons argue that more strict rules on organ-screening will reduce the number of available organs. #bioethics Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:54:43 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8136 Proposed changes in how and when organs can be taken from dead patients raise fears of organ "harvesters" rather than procurement. #bioethics Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:45:30 EDT