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Vague Criterion of "Brain Death" Leaves Potential Donors Clueless that They Donate While Alive

 ORGAN DONATION — Vague Criterion of "Brain Death" has Blinded Potential Donors to the fact that their organs are often harvested while they are still alive Shock: Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ...

French Court: Parents Can Register Names for Miscarried Fetuses (2008)

France's supreme court has ruled that parents of miscarried or stillborn children can register a name for the child, no matter what stage of development the child was at at the time of miscarriage or birth, reports the AFP. Previous to this most recent ruling,...

Truthfulness in Transplantaion: Non-Heart Beating Organ Donation

The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations Truthfulness in transplantation: non-heart-beating organ donation: Commentary Abstract   The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations: Physician sounds alarm about unethical or at least highly questionable practices of...

Critical Care Without Consent: Ethicists Disagree on Experimenting During Crises

The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients’ permission. The $50 million, five-year...

Study Finds Pain Control Need Not Shorten Life (JPSM, 12/06; PM, 3/07)

A new study finds that, when cancer patients are given appropriate doses of morphine to relieve severe pain, the treatment doesn't lead to the shortening of their lives. The finding is an important refutation of the argument euthanasia proponents make that pain...

Non Heart-Beating Donation (NHBD): 5 Articles 2006-07

1. Palliative Care and Organ Donation http://www.pallimed.org/2006/03/terminal-patients-in-icu-and-organ.html Monday, March 20, 2006 Terminal patients in the ICU and organ donation In my job as a palliative medicine doctor, I am frequently talking with patients and...

Womb Transplants May be Possible Within 2 Years

London-based researchers, working with medical teams in New York and Budapest, have developed a technique for providing a transplanted womb with a reliable blood supply. Women born without a uterus or who have undergone an emergency hysterectomy would be among those...

Prolonged, Unintended Brain Cooling May Inhibit Recovery from Brain Injuries

 Case study and literature review. Background: Tracheal intubations of comatose patients are common, but contrary to most standards for respiratory care, heated nebulizers are not always used. This deviation from recommendations appears to be widespread.  Case Report:...

China Admits to Sale of Organs From Prisoners

Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the practice of selling the organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients is common, while promising to change the policy. “We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the...