As policymakers weigh financial aid for the airline industry, they have an opportunity to help make the US organ transplantation system more equitable at the same time.
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Thousands of Canadians are on waiting lists for life-saving organ transplants. An opt-out organ donor system, like the one Nova Scotia is implementing, could reduce avoidable deaths and suffering.
Moving primary care online and cancelling key services such as organ transplants is likely to have an outsized effect on BAME communities.
Grisly early experiments laid the foundation of our understanding of how to keep organs ‘alive’ in isolation.
New research supports kidney transplants from HIV-positive donors to recipients with HIV.
Organs from gay men or injecting drug users, often rejected for transplants, could safely be used, so long as donors test negative for infections such as HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.
The number of people choosing to become posthumous donors in the UK has reached 25.3m but this is still considerably lower than other countries.
The idea behind regenerative medicine is that the patient is both the donor and recipient of healthy tissue grown from stem cells. But sometimes the transplanted cells are rejected. Now we know why.
The idea of human-animal hybrids can raise a lot of questions and it’s easy to feel they are “unnatural” because they violate the boundaries between species.
As the rate of obesity in the US rises, transplant centers are debating whether to accept organ donations from the obese. A new study suggests that oversized hearts are safe to use.
When a Canadian travels to China to receive an organ transplant, a member of a persecuted minority may be killed to provide the organ.
Although certain racial minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with organ failure, they are less likely to be transplanted. What’s behind the gap?
England is moving to an opt-out organ donation scheme. Here’s how it could be a success.
There is a stark mismatch between the elements required of a modern news story – unique, high impact – and the reality of medical research being slow, meticulous and progressing one step at a time.
Most Canadians support organ donation after death, but fewer than 25 per cent have registered to donate their organs. What can be done to encourage more registrations?
When my kidneys stopped working properly, my dad gave me one of his kidneys. Thanks, Dad.
International standards ban publication of research that involves any biological material from executed prisoners, that lacks human research ethics committee approval and that lacks consent of donors.
A parliamentary committee report recommends the Australian government investigate whether an opt-out system could help increase donation rates. But the evidence suggests it wouldn’t.
A liver transplant from an HIV-positive living donor to an HIV-negative recipient is possible, but there are still gaps in our knowledge.
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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
