Sep 7
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Global and International Health, New Legislation, Organs and Tissue, Resource Allocation | Comments off
The Hindu- 01 September, 2010
“In an effort to promote and streamline the process of organ donation to help hundreds of needy patients, the Andhra Pradesh government has launched a unique scheme and issued a comprehensive set of guidelines for its effective functioning.”
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Sep 6
Posted by Edwina Light in Health Law, Organs and Tissue, UK Health Services | Comments off
J Med Ethics 2010;36:534-538 doi:10.1136/jme.2009.031757
Author: Romelie Rieu
“The recent report of the UK government’s Organ Donation Taskforce is in favour of continuing with the current organ donation system rather than changing to an opt-out system where people are assumed to be willing to donate. How did it reach this decision and is it correct?”
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Sep 2
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Global and International Health, Medical Boards and Associations, Organs and Tissue, Safety | Comments off
ABC News, By Simon Lauder, 1 September 2010
“Australians are helping fuel a predatory international transplant trade by travelling overseas to buy organs illegally. The Transplantation Society says there are still Australians willing to ignore health and ethical considerations to source organs on the overseas market.”
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Aug 31
Posted by Edwina Light in Health Law, Organs and Tissue, Principle-Based Ethics, Regulatory Compliance, UK Health Services | Comments off
Med Law Rev 2010 18: 275-301; doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwq019
Authors: Antonia J. Cronin and James F. Douglas
“In this paper, we contend that the acceptance of the ‘central principle’ of unconditional deceased donor organ donation as legally binding, or close to legally binding, rather than as an operational policy, is just such a misinterpretation, and seek to demonstrate not only that directed and conditional deceased donor organ donations are not illegal per se, but also that to overrule an individual’s request (or attempt to place a condition upon a donation) may conflict in law with the principle of ‘appropriate consent’ considered by many to be the central fundamental tenet and ‘golden thread’ of the 2004 Act. …The clash between individual authorisation and public benefit was brought to the fore in the ‘Ashworth Affair’ of 2008, which thus forms a useful starting point for an analysis of the relationship between underlying ethical principles, regulatory policy, and the actual law of organ donation.”
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Aug 25
Posted by Edwina Light in Bioethics, Biomedical Research, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Law, Organs and Tissue, Privacy & Health Information | Comments off
JAMA. 2010;304(8):908-910. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1212
Book reviewer: Rogelio A. Lasso
“The topic of this book [The Ethics of Research Biobanking] is timely. Biobanks, defined as collections of biological materials or samples, exist on every continent of the globe. In the United States, recent studies demonstrate that more than 350 million specimens are stored in pathology laboratories, newborn screening collections, forensic DNA banks, blood banks, umbilical cord banks, organ procurement entities, sperm banks, research-related repositories used for longitudinal studies, and banks of brain, breast, and other types of tissue. This number does not include proprietary databases, military banks, privately maintained collections, or biobanks maintained in university and hospital laboratories. A conservative estimate of the number of samples stored in repositories around the world exceeds 1 billion. …Biobanking raises a host of legal and ethical concerns that extend well beyond issues of privacy protection and the confidentiality of medical…”
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Aug 19
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Clinical Ethics, Death, End-of-life Decisions, Health Law, Organs and Tissue | Comments off
The Times, David Rose, August 19, 2010
“More patients could receive kidneys from recently deceased donors after a study found that they perform just as well as those from brain-dead donors, who are not expected to recover. The findings pave the way for reforms in transplant policy that could make an estimated 600 extra donor kidneys available to the NHS every year.”
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Aug 15
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Death, Medical Boards and Associations, Organs and Tissue, Safety | Comments off
Reuters, By Keith Coffman, 13 August 2010
“A Colorado hospital that pioneered liver transplants using tissue from healthy donors has suspended further surgeries of that type following two recent deaths of U.S. donors. “We are conducting an internal review and will also have outside experts in the field do an external review,” University of Colorado Hospital spokeswoman Erika Matich said on Friday. “We will make any changes or improvements if needed.” Ryan Arnold, 34, died on August 2 at the Colorado hospital days after donating a portion of his liver to his older brother, Chad, 38, who was suffering from liver failure.”
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Aug 14
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Negligence, Organs and Tissue, UK Health Services | Comments off
The Telegraph UK, By Stephen Adams, 13 August 2010
“More cases are also likely to be discovered after diagnosis mistakes were belatedly picked up in July, following a statistical review of routine mammograms at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle since April 2007. It found that cancer was detected in significantly fewer women called back for a second screening than would have been expected.”
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Aug 10
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Global and International Health, Informed Consent, New Legislation, Organs and Tissue | Comments off
Japan Times- 10 August, 2010
Author: Natsuko Fukue
“The family of a man left brain dead from a traffic accident agrees to donate his organs in the first such case under the revised transplant law, saying that although he hadn’t consented in writing, he had voiced such wishes.”
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Aug 1
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Death, End-of-life Decisions, Health Law, Human Rights, Organs and Tissue | Comments off
CNN Health, staff, 30 July 2010
“A Georgia man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease says he wants to die by having his organs harvested rather than wait for his degenerative nerve ailment to kill him. Garry Phebus has been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as the disease is formally known, since 2008. The 61-year-old told HLN’s “Prime News” on Thursday that the diagnosis is “a death sentence, positively, no questions asked,” and he wants do donate his organs while he still can. “We donate organs in patients that, say, are brain dead or have terminal events,” she said. Most doctors “would have a problem” with what Phebus wants to do, because “at this point, he’s fairly healthy.”"
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