Outreach to Hispanics may boost organ donation
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population also has a growing need for donated organs, researchers say, and creative outreach programs could raise the number of Hispanic Americans willing to be organ donors. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Outreach to Hispanics May Boost Organ Donation
The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population also has a growing need for donated organs, researchers say, and creative outreach programs could raise the number of Hispanic Americans willing to be organ donors.Source: Reuters Health
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Hispanic American Health, Organ Donation (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - November 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Body Snatchers: Organ Harvesting For Profit
Kidneys and other organs are selling to the highest bidder on the black market. read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - November 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dale Archer, M.D. Tags: Depression Health Law and Crime Media back market body parts black market black market organ human trafficking organ donation organ donor organ harvesting Source Type: news
HIVMA praises passage of the HOPE Act, urges swift enactment into law
(Infectious Diseases Society of America) The US Congress took an important step Tuesday evening with House passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, which will allow research on donation of organs from deceased HIV-infected donors to HIV-infected recipients. Having been passed by the Senate in June, the bill is now positioned to move to the White House to be signed into law. The HOPE Act modernizes outdated federal law to reflect the current medical understanding of HIV infection and to allow for scientific research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Sinosphere Blog: No Quick Fixes for China’s Overwhelmed Organ Transplant System
China has vowed to end its reliance on executions for transplant organs, but public distrust has slowed development of a donation system. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By AUSTIN RAMZY Tags: Transplants China Red Cross Society of China Organ Donation Source Type: news
Patient woke up just a docs about to remove her organs
My recent column in Emergency Medicine News, about the patient in a Syracuse, NY hospital who woke up in the operating room just before her organs were about to be harvested for donation, is now online. The read it, click here. (Source: The Poison Review)
Source: The Poison Review - October 31, 2013 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Medical baclofen brain death organ donation syracuse ny Source Type: news
Researchers look at health consequences of living kidney donation
The short-term risks associated with kidney donation are relatively modest, but because many donors have additional medical conditions, it is important to evaluate their ongoing health. That's the conclusion of a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). In more than a third of kidney transplantations performed in the United States, the transplanted organs come from live donors. Research suggests that there are minimal health consequences for donors, but only a few comprehensive studies have looked at this issue... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplants / Organ Donations Source Type: news
Official report about overdose patient who awoke in OR just before surgeons harvested her organs
Several days ago TPR posted about a distressing case from Syracuse (NY), in which an overdose patient woke up in the operating room just as surgeons were about to harvest her organs. There were some details in the Syracuse Post-Standard story. An astute reader sent a comment pointing out that the report investigating this case — produced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — noted that the patient was on baclofen (in addition to Xanax and diphenhydramine.
Baclofen is notorious for producing prolonged coma and a clinical syndrome indistinguishable from brain death in overdose. Papers by Sullivan et ...
Source: The Poison Review - July 11, 2013 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Best of TPR Medical baclofen brain death organ donation Source Type: news
Hospital fined after overdose patient awakes just before surgeons harvest her organs
The Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard reports that St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center has been fined $22,000 for a 2009 incident in which a patient declared brain dead and cleared for organ donation woke up in the operating room just before the harvesting procedure was to begin.
According to the report, the 41-year-old patient was brought to the emergency department comatose. Although staff at the hospital thought she had suffered a cardiac catastrophe, she was actually suffering from effects of an intentional overdose of drugs including Xanax, diphenhydramine, and a muscle relaxant. It is not clear from the newspaper r...
Source: The Poison Review - July 8, 2013 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Medical drug overdose organ donation Source Type: news
Organ donation: Welsh Assembly bill means body parts will be used unless person opts out
A Bill passed last night means that in Wales it will be presumed a person has agreed to donate their organs unless they specifically opted out before they died. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Statement On Organ Donation After Circulatory Determination Of Death Published By The American Thoracic Society
The American Thoracic Society has released an official statement on the ethical and health policy considerations surrounding adult and pediatric controlled organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD), the recovery of organs after cessation of circulation from patients with severe neurological, neuromuscular or pulmonary disease for whom decisions are made to forego additional life-prolonging treatments... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplants / Organ Donations Source Type: news
Replacing Organs without Organ Donors
The recent plight of cystic fibrosis sufferer 10-year Sarah Murnagham created somewhat of a controversy about organ donation. She required hospitalization due to her failing lungs, and it wasn't clear she would be able to get a new pair from a donor in time to save her life. Although she did get lungs in time, not everyone does. There are less organs than people that need them....Read Full Post (Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical)
Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical - July 1, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
ATS publishes statement on organ donation after circulatory determination of death
(American Thoracic Society) The American Thoracic Society has released an official statement on the ethical and health policy considerations surrounding adult and pediatric controlled organ donation after circulatory determination of death, the recovery of organs after cessation of circulation from patients with severe neurological, neuromuscular or pulmonary disease for whom decisions are made to forego additional life-prolonging treatments. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Saving Reagan: The power of split liver transplants
Every year dozens of infants and young children in need of a liver transplant die on the organ donation wait list because a donor organ small enough for their body didn’t become available in time. But there is hope—a surgical technique that lets surgeons split donor livers into two unequally sized segments, a small one for infants and a larger one for older patients. If the process were adopted more widely it could save many of these children, just as it saved Reagan.
An uncertain beginning
A young Reagan and Dr. Kim
When Reagan Devlin was born in 2004, her parents Teresa and Bryan were overjoyed. But that jo...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - June 21, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Children's in the news Diseases & conditions Our patients’ stories Heung Bae Kim liver failure Liver transplant our patients' stories Pediatric Transplant Center (PTC) Source Type: news
AUDIO: 'My dad's organs saved four lives'
Ten-year-old Caitlin Robertson urges the public to sign organ donation register, after her father's organs saved four lives (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
