Fatima Says Brain Death is Fake & Catholics Cannot Donate Organs
Father Albert of the Fatima Center says that "brain death is not really death." Therefore, organ donation entails "killing" one person to help another. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 25, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Opt-out organ donation: organs and tissues excluded from the new system
Department of Health and Social Care -From 2020, everyone in England over the age of 18 will be considered to be in favour of donating their organs and tissue after death unless they: have said they do not want to donate (opted out); have appointed someone to decide for them after death; or are in an excluded group. The government proposes that transplants of certain organs and tissues will still need consent and is asking people for their views on which organs and tissues should be excluded from the new opt-out organ donation system. This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 22 July 2019.Consultation paperMore detail (Source...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 29, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Source Type: blogs
What does your name taste like?
Julie McDowall (@JulieAMcDowall) usually writes about nuclear war, in fact she’s got a book on that subject coming out soon. But, a few days ago she mentioned on Twitter that she has synaesthesia (the condition where the senses are “mixed up”, so that a person with condition can smell music or see colours when they touch different textures). She said that to her different names conjure up different tastes. Needless to say, everyone who follows her on Twitter wants to know what their name tastes like.
The thread has gone viral, she has had 6 million twitter interactions as of 29th January. She has been tr...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 30, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 21st 2019
In this study, scientists screened cells from old animals to identify any RBPs that change upon aging. The screening showed that one particular protein, Pumilio2 (PUM2), was highly induced in old animals. PUM2 binds mRNA molecules containing specific recognition sites. Upon its binding, PUM2 represses the translation of the target mRNAs into proteins.
Using a systems genetics approach, the researchers then identified a new mRNA target that PUM2 binds. The mRNA encodes for a protein called Mitochondrial Fission Factor (MFF), and is a pivotal regulator of mitochondrial fission - a process by which mitochondria break u...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 20, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 7th 2019
This study suggests that advantages and disadvantages vary by environment and diet, however, which might explain why evolution has selected for multiple haplogroups rather than one dominant haplogroup.
This is all interesting, but none of it stops the research community from engineering a globally better-than-natural human mitochondrial genome, and then copying it into the cell nucleus as a backup to prevent the well-known contribution of mitochondrial DNA damage to aging. Further, nothing stops us from keeping the haplogroups we have and rendering the effects of variants small and irrelevant through the development...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 6, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How to ship a dead heart . . . with an assured life on delivery ?
Human body is intertwined collection of lives of Individual organs.We believe death occurs when brain dies , respiration stops and circulation ceases . Curiously ,when life ends , these organs don’t die as a single unit . These three events can happen in any of the six possible permutations.Each organ takes different times to die after loss of life.It is like a crashed computer , where the mother board /RAM memory may be transferred to another and be functional . Out of these three , heart function appears to be supreme as it can function without the need of brain (Science of brain-death) and keep the body alive w...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Heart transplantation donor heart transport transmedics Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at the Rejuvenation Research and Advocacy of 2018
Discussion of Mitochondrial Hormesis as an Approach to Slow Aging
Cornelis (Cees) Wortel, Ichor Therapeutics Chief Medical Officer, on Rejuvenation Research and Its Engagement with the Established Regulatory System
An Interview with a Programmed Aging Theorist
An Interview with Reason at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation
An Interview on Mitochondrial Damage and Dysfunction in Aging
An Interview with Vadim Gladyshev on Research into the Causes of Aging
An Interview with Jim Mellon, and Update on Juvenescence
A Lengthy Interview with Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation
An Interview with Peter de Keize...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 3rd 2018
This article, however, is more of a commentary on high level strategy and the effects of regulation, coupled with a desire to forge ahead rather than hold back in the matter of treating aging, thus I concur with much more of what is said than is usually the case.
For decades, one of the most debated questions in gerontology was whether aging is a disease or the norm. At present, excellent reasoning suggests aging should be defined as a disease - indeed, aging has been referred to as "normal disease." Aging is the sum of all age-related diseases and this sum is the best biomarker of aging. Aging and its diseases ar...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 2, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Pennsylvania Makes Major Amendments to Organ & Tissue Donation Laws
This week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed Senate Bill 180 which makes major amendments to Pennsylvania anatomic gift donation laws.
The legislation changes various provisions regarding donation of human organs, tissues, eyes, and to create a ne... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 26, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Getting the Best Possible Organs for the Rest of Us
By Mark McQuain A recent September 6th Perspective in the NEJM entitled “Voluntary Euthanasia – Implications for Organ Donation” teases with the following lead-in:“Canada now permits physicians to hasten the death of a patient by means of physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia. This development creates a new pathway for organ donation – and with it, … Continue reading "Getting the Best Possible Organs for the Rest of Us" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 18, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mark McQuain Tags: Health Care bioethics end of life Euthanasia; Slippery Slope Arguments; Health Care Practice Medical Decision Making syndicated Source Type: blogs
New Legal Developments Regarding the Right to Die
Here are just some of the highlights of our upcoming second 2018 update to The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking.
This supplement covers the most recent legal developments—judicial cases, legislation, and news accounts of important legal proceedings that are not officially reported—concerning end-of-life decisionmaking.
Enactment of the “Our Care, Our Choice Act,” making Hawaii the seventh U.S. jurisdiction to legalize medical aid in dying with a statute modeled on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
An amendment to the California penal code, clarifying that individuals ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 16, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 4th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 3, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Exploring the Utility of Decellularized Muscle Grafts in Animal Models
In this open access paper, researchers explore the utility of decellularized muscle grafts to repair severe injury. Decellularization is the process by which a donor tissue is cleared of cells, leaving behind the extracellular matrix. This intricate structure includes capillary networks and chemical cues to guide cells, line items that the research community has yet to reliably recreate when building tissue from scratch. Over the past decade, researchers have demonstrated the ability to repopulate decellularized tissue with patient-derived cells, a capacity that in principle allows for the production of patient-matched don...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 29, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 21st 2018
In conclusion, the connection between DNA damage and aging is emphasized by the secretion of senescence-associated proteins during cellular senescence, a phenotype which is activated by DNA damage and is common for both human and mice. Though much progress has been achieved, full understanding of these mechanisms has still a long way to go.
XPO1 as a Novel Target for Therapies to Enhance Autophagy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/05/xpo1-as-a-novel-target-for-therapies-to-enhance-autophagy/
Autophagy is the name given to a collection of cellular housekeeping processes that recycle damaged and u...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 20, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
