New frontiers in organ donation: from DDR to ODE to LVOD
After Organ Donor Euthanasia (ODE), what’s next? Living vital organ donation (LVOD) – giving your heart away even though you aren’t ill or dying. Apologies...
The ‘dead donor rule’ takes another one on the chin
Another attack on the dead donor rule comes in this month’s Journal of Medical Ethics. Anthony P. Smith, a philosopher at the University of Utah,...
Always hungry for more organs, transplant surgeons are exploiting — and illuminating — the different standards for determining death
Are you familiar with something called the “partial resurrection” procedure? That’s how MedPage Today referred to it in a recent article. You might suppose it...
New protocol for death of organ donors makes doctors and bioethicists nervous
A new protocol for determining death for transplant surgery has created a controversy amongst surgeons and bioethicists. An article in MedPage Today subtitled “Is it...