February Man of the Month: Dan Miller
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we are proud to announce our February Man of the Month…Dan Miller. There is no greater gift of love than saving a life. Happy Valentine’s Day!
On the topic of organ donation, Dan Miller had a consistent message: “Do the research.”
For Dan, a healthy, 20-year-old junior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., this meant seeking out the evidence needed to justify the life-changing decision of whether to donate a kidney to someone he’d never met.
Dan talked to his sister, Lauren Miller, who had successfully undergone the same procedure in December 2014 and h...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
It’s Time For Fairness In Organ Distribution
This year there are over 15,000 Americans on the waiting list for a lifesaving liver transplant. Unfortunately, only about 6,500 livers will be donated for transplant. As a result, more than 1,500 people will die waiting for a liver.
Even worse, where we live can dramatically influence the chance of receiving a lifesaving organ. With the same degree of illness, the chance of receiving a transplant within 90 days can vary from as high as 86 percent in some regions to as low as 18 percent in other regions, according to recent research published in the American Journal of Transplantation. In simple terms, where you live can l...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Milan Kinkhabwala and Sandy Florman Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Quality donation service areas HRSA liver transplant organ donation UNOS Source Type: blogs
The Methuselah 300 Monument is Unveiled
The Methuselah Foundation has unveiled the Methuselah 300 monument in the US Virgin Islands, a lasting record of the generous donors of the Methuselah 300 who have helped fund the work of the Methuselah Foundation over the past decade: the M Prize for longevity science; the seed funding of bioprinting company Organovo; the SENS rejuvenation research programs and creation of the SENS Research Foundation; the launch of the New Organ prize series; and much more.
The Methuselah Foundation was the first longevity science initiative that I chose to materially support with my donations and my time. The third post I wrote here at...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
27th Annual Dorothy J. MacLean Fellows Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics
The MacLean Center at the University of Chicago has prepared another world class conference on clinical medical ethics. It is November 13 and 14. It is free.Panel 1: Ethics and Healthcare Economics Moderator: Mark Siegler
The True Cost of Hepatitis C Therapy (Andrew Aronsohn, The University of Chicago)
Ethics of Sustainability (Stacy Lindau, The University of Chicago)
Are There Ethical Standards For Health Insurance Companies? (David Rubin, The University of Chicago)
What’s Wrong With Healthcare Rationing (Peter Ubel, Duke University)
An Economic Analysis of Medical Ethics (Anup Malani, The Universit...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 26, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
Conclusion
We leave you with words from Robin:
“My family and I hope that Holly’s story will make a difference and help you realize that you must be aware of the risks of vaccinations, just as you make yourself aware of the risks of any medical procedure.
We hope to make change, and one very important improvement must be that the pediatricians acknowledge that there are vaccine reactions, that moderate to serious and even fatal vaccine reactions do exist and occur at least 100 times more than is reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
We are still very disappointed and disgusted with the actio...
Source: vactruth.com - September 24, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Holly Marie Stavola Holly's Law MMR vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Robin Stavola truth about vaccines Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs
Increasing Transplant Organ Supply Through Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiac Death
This study would suggest that a publicly accepted approach to uDCD would be to require consent prior to organ preservation, even if this is not legally or ethically required.
Should uDCD Protocols Be Pursued In The US?
Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death protocols provide an opportunity to expand the organ donor pool, thereby decreasing waiting list time and improving outcomes for potential organ recipients. Given that the waiting list for organ donation has not significantly changed in the past several years, and thousands of people continue to die or have a poor quality of life while awaiting organs, efforts should...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Anji Wall and Sunil Geevarghese Tags: Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Population Health Bioethics cardiac death health care law next of kin organ donation organ transplants Source Type: blogs
ASBH Annual Meeting – Lots of EOL Sessions
The ASBH Annual Meeting is October 21-25,
2015 in Houston.
If you are not already
planning to go, check out this huge list of sessions on EOL. And this is just a subset of those on the program.
Brain
Death
Can the Brain
Dead be Harmed or Wronged? On the Moral Status of Brain De…
Religious Exemptions
and the Duality of Death
Are Brain Dead
Human Beings Really Dead?
Done to Death:
Yet Another Argument About Defining Death—Where Miller & …
Futility
Non-beneficial
Treatment Cases: A Policy Approach?
Preventive Ethics
in an ICU Setting: A Pilot Study
Legal Update
2015: Top...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 9, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue donation
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Planned Parenthood recently made national news because an anti-abortion group released an <a href="http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3854083.shtml?cat=10114">undercover video</a> showing two people posing as fetal tissue recruiters interviewing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the senior director of medical services of Planned Parenthood. The interview was cropped down into an eight minute clip in which Dr. Nucatola seems to be suggesting that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue for profit. Planned Parenthood has resp...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 23, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Reproductive Medicine syndicated Women's Reproductive Rights Source Type: blogs
Working on Making New Organs Available as Needed
There are three principal problems with the current state of organ transplantation, from which all of the other well-known issues arise. Firstly the existing regulatory systems surrounding organ donation actively discourage donors by both restricting possible compensation and making the process far slower and more baroque than it has to be. This is often the case wherever bureaucrats and politicians become involved in medical matters: a donor really has to work hard as well as suffer surgery in order to give an organ, and there will be nothing but thanks for it. There is little fairness and little incentive to found. For a...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 2, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Woman’s breast milk: should it be up for sale?
In case you didn't know, a woman's breast milk is a commercially but also a nutritionally valuable commodity at least as an example supported by Medolac Labs and Mother's Milk Cooperative. This milk is said to be needed by hospitalized pre-term infants whose mothers are not yet lactating. I read about it in an article in the Michigan State University Bioethics website on lactation and the laws and actions which have been taken including commodification of the woman's milk.A scholarly article on the subject of the sale of mother's milk was written in the Winter 2009 issue of the Nevada Law Jour...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 22, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Woman's breast milk: should it be up for sale?
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - January 22, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Woman's breast milk: should it be up for sale?
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - January 22, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
But the Donor Is Not Dead: Organ Procurement Halted
Surgeons in the Bremen area of Germany were forced to stop operating on a 'deceased' patient after discovering he was not brain dead. (Daily Mail)
The team were due to harvest the man's organs for donation. But the operati... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 13, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Demonstrating Decellularized Heart Valves
Decellularization of donor organs and tissue sections has been demonstrated in laboratory animals and trialed in humans for some years now. It is clearly an improvement over straight organ donation in that it greatly reduces transplant rejection, and may even put a dent in the issue of organ availability by allowing the xenotransplantation of pig organs repopulated with human cells.
Absent some bold, unexpected, and rapid advances in tissue engineering, I would expect that decellularization will become the mainstay technology for organ and tissue transplantation for the next two decades or so. The process of removing cell...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 24, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
