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.
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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.
A scholar suggests a few approaches that have withstood the test of time.
Konrad Reuland's death shocked sports fans and, famously, gave new life to baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew. But how is it that a young athlete in top shape could suddenly develop a deadly condition?
Caring about someone you have never met, this new brain research suggests, may have a lot in common with caring about the people you love.
Transplant experts have serious concerns over a new organ donation website.
Many patients with end stage kidney disease would live longer and have a better quality of life with a kidney transplant compared to staying on dialysis.
Paying people for their organs can be viewed as coercive and exploitative, but there is a middle ground.
The international community should demand a full accounting of the real sources of organs in China before believing any more claims about reform.
Most people know they can donate their organs after they pass away. But what about their medical data? For National Donor Day, we suggest countries create national databases of data donors.
For those who travel to China for whole livers, lungs or hearts, there can be little doubt that, after organ retrieval, the donor is dead.
A shortage of organs for donation has led some to ask: would establishing a market help? That, however, raises another question: would it also harm?
We're living longer and more ill lives – could we use animals to grow human organs for transplants?
Presumed consent is not the way forward.
The family veto is morally repugnant unless removing it would result in a decrease in the supply of transplantable organs.
Fertility treatments might be designed to improve rather than save lives but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be publicly funded.
The advent of womb transplants raises serious issues of consent for organ donors.
Uterus transplants could make giving birth a possibility for thousands of infertile women.
Organ donation rates in the UK are at an all time low. Could this be the solution?
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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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Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick
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Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University
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Doctoral Student, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, University of Canberra
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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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Professor, Medical Ethics, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics and Professionalism, School of Medicine, Deakin University
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Professor of Bioethics, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Bioethicist and Health Communication Specialist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Research Associate in Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Associate at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law and Medicine, University of Sydney
