Medical BagExamining the Ethics of Deceased vs Living Uterus DonorsMedical BagNew research published in The American Journal of Bioethics highlights the ethics of the use of deceased vs living donors in uterus transplantation. Absolute uterine factor i…
Medical BagExamining the Ethics of Deceased vs Living Uterus DonorsMedical BagNew research published in The American Journal of Bioethics highlights the ethics of the use of deceased vs living donors in uterus transplantation. Absolute uterine factor i…
Capital Research Center |
What We Owe the Dead: Defending Deceased Donors
Capital Research Center A provocative June article by Barry Lam on the always-interesting Aeon website wonders whether it is moral to respect the wishes of the dead over those of the living in the management and distribution of their wealth after death. It’s a question well … |
Capital Research Center |
What We Owe the Dead: Defending Deceased Donors
Capital Research Center A provocative June article by Barry Lam on the always-interesting Aeon website wonders whether it is moral to respect the wishes of the dead over those of the living in the management and distribution of their wealth after death. It’s a question well … |
Ross procedure may provide longer survival and better quality of life, study suggestsMedical XpressPulmonary tissue from deceased donors is then used to replace the pulmonary valve. Its use has declined over the past 20 years due to its complexity, pot…
Dayton Daily News |
These former colleagues didn’t know one another at Wright State. Then one donated a kidney to the other.
Dayton Daily News A few people responded but said they couldn’t be donors. Five friends outside of Wright State volunteered to be donors but turned out not to be matches. Combs resigned himself to being on a waiting list for a kidney from a deceased donor. But he didn’t … |
shropshirestar.comShropshire transplant patient Hugh in the medals at gamesshropshirestar.comHugh Jackson, from Newport, received a live donor kidney transplant from his mother last September. Around 11 months after receiving treatment at Royal Stoke U…
Kidney allocation system may improve access to kidney transplantsHealioThe implementation of a kidney allocation system improved equity in access to kidney transplants; however, there were geographic disparities, according to …and more »
Nursing Times |
‘Legislative change alone is not a panacea to the critical shortage of donor organs’
Nursing Times Notionally, this appears a reasonable proposal to increase the number of deceased donor organs for use in transplant operations. However, the move towards an opt-out system for organ donation fails to address profound ethical, moral and professional … |
EurekAlert (press release)Study reports successful kidney transplants from donors with a …EurekAlert (press release)Researchers at Loma Linda University Health found that kidney transplantation can be safely performed using organs testing positive fo…