UB Conference Examines Bioethics and the Philosophy of MedicineUB News CenterThe conference, which will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, will address four principle areas: death, brain death and the human identity problem; inten…
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Bullfeathers’ philosophers to address bioethical concerns
University at Buffalo Reporter The conference, which will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, will address four principle areas: death, brain death and the human identity problem; intention, consent and responsibility; health, development and disease; and harm, … |
Making the Most of a New KidneydailyRxFor example, among transplant recipients who received a kidney from a standard criteria donor (a person under age 50 who had brain death), extremely obese recipients were 48 percent less likely to die after getting…
Donation must be a choiceThis is South WalesRemoval must happen as soon after brain death as possible. It may be that the body is kept alive artificially so as to maintain organ viability. But nobody who is still alive (by modern measures and conventio…
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‘Train docs on brain death protocol’
The Hindu However, certification of brain death is still relatively low among hospitals owing to multiple factors, the primary one being a lack of awareness about the protocol among medical professionals. For instance, last year, a city hospital accounted for 48 … |
Is Malcolm Gladwell Right, Should College Football Be Banned To Save Brains?ForbesCTE is only diagnosable post-brain death during an autopsy and has also been found in the brains of boxers and hockey players (although medical researchers are getting cl…
Scientific Evidence For The Existence Of Soul Part 1SpeakingTree (blog)Doctors started the operation after draining the blood from the brain, the EEG showed no activity and there were no evoked potentials-all signs of brain death. The doctors were stun…
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BMC set to frame policy to boost cadaver donation
Daily News & Analysis The only other option is removing the organs from brain dead patients for which we require an expert committee to help identify brain death and who will be responsible for retrieving the organs. Also we will try to appoint a dedicated co-ordinator who … |
KCK Fire Department offers tips about the heatThe Kansas City KansanAt 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.7 degrees Celsius) brain death begins and at 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) death is nearly certain. Anyone can be stricken by heat illness. …
90% of organ donations made with family consentThe Japan NewsOrgan donation becomes an option after cardiac death as well as after brain death, but the number of transplants after cardiac death has decreased. As a result, the combined number of organ d…