Doctors in South Africa performed a liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor to a HIV-negative recipient. Major ethical questions came into play.
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I joined a Facebook group about organ donation. Within two days an Indian man offered to sell me his kidney.
April is National Donate Life Month, a time to emphasize the importance of organ donation. It is also a good time to learn about a major medical advance that allows liver transplants from living donors.
Doctors can treat diabetes by transplanting cells from the pancreas of a donor to the patient. But many of the crucial cells die - a better way to store and transport them can help.
Sport can provide organ recipients with motivation and a chance to celebrate.
3D bioprinting of living cells and materials may contribute to faster and cheaper ways to create effective new drugs - and even reduce animal testing.
What rights should a chimera with human-like cognitive abilities but without the ability to speak have?
Health benefits come with regular sexual contact with the same male partner before pregnancy commences.
We’re living longer and more ill lives – could we use animals to grow human organs for transplants?
A baboon survived nearly three years with a pigs heart, so does that mean cross-species transplantation is imminent?
Face transplants are one of the great leaps forward of 21st-century medicine. But soon they may not be necessary.
Presumed consent is not the way forward.
Italian surgeon, Sergio Canavero, claims that he is ready to perform the world’s first head transplant. But does the science stack up?
Public attention is focused on whether we should use gene editing technology on embryos, but it could potentially have a bigger and more immediate impact on human health via animal organ donation.
Australia was once a world leader in organ donations, but today it lags much of the developed world. William Isdale speaks with Aric Bendorf about how to improve Australia's organ donation rates.
Australia’s organ donation levels are low by international standards. At least twenty countries achieve better donation rates than Australia’s 16.1 donors per million population (DPM).
If frogs can freeze and live to tell the tale, why can’t humans?
New research shows that black patients are more likely to have heart transplants at the worst-performing centers. So how do patients choose where to go for surgery?
Australia has never had a great deceased organ donor rate – and it fell last year. But proposed guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) could change how donor organs are…
The recent inquest into a case in Wales where two patients died following kidney transplants has focused fresh attention on the risks associated with transplantation. No transplant is risk-free, but the…
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Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University
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Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney
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Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Queensland University of Technology
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg
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Adjunct Fellow, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Philosophy & Chair of Faculty of Arts Human Research Ethics Committee, Macquarie University
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Doctoral student in Bioethics, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Former Program Leader of Stem Cells Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
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Professor of Bioethics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Health Ethics and Professionalism, School of Medicine, Deakin University
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Co-director of the Immunology Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
