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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?
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.
The answer to increasing the rate is already clear: we need to better manage patients nearing brain death.
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).
Most families want to honour their loved one’s known donation wishes. A one-in-three veto rate suggests families are encountering barriers to organ donation in the hospital.
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…
Tissue and organ availability for use in transplant operations is influenced by many factors including getting people to register, and the difficult task of discussing donation with those who are recently…
Physicians are one-and-a-half-times more likely to register as organ donors than members of the general public, a new Canadian…
The shortage of donated organs means that for many in need of a life-saving transplant the only thing to do is wait, sometimes so long that the patient becomes too ill to undergo the operation. But much…
Estimates suggest more than two million people worldwide would benefit from an organ transplant. While the donation rates vary greatly between countries, the contrast between the increasing numbers of…
Ethical issues are rife in medicine. Arguments about abortion, organ donation and euthanasia regularly take their turn in the headlines, normally prompted by media scare-stories or an arising controversy…
Patients have gone online, digital natives are entering medical schools and regulatory bodies, like the General Medical Council in the UK, are scrambling to respond to the impact these changes are having…
Organ failure affects people from a wide range of social, age, gender, educational, cultural, faith and ethnic backgrounds. Minority ethnic groups already experience many health inequalities and transplant…
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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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Adjunct Fellow, 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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Associate Professor in Health Ethics and Professionalism, School of Medicine, Deakin University
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Bioethicist and Health Communication Specialist, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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