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  • August 2008

    • Harvesting Babies' Organs Scrutinized

      Washington Post  |  Aug 14, 08 10:09 AM CDT

      Harvesting Babies' Organs Scrutinized

      (Newser) - A report on heart transplants involving babies has raised some thorny questions of medical ethics, the Washington Post reports. Hearts were taken from newborns suffering severe brain damage less than two minutes after the babies were disconnected from life support. The hearts saved the lives of terminally ill babies, but critics question whether the donors were truly dead. More »

  • May 2008

    • 4 Japanese Gangsters Get UCLA Liver Transplants

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 30, 08 4:21 AM CDT

      4 Japanese Gangsters Get UCLA Liver Transplants

      (Newser) - Four Yakuza gangsters, including one of Japan's most powerful crime bosses, had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center between 2000 and 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. Organs were particularly scarce in those years, with over 100 people on the waiting list dying each year. There is no indication that the hospital or the surgeon were aware of their patients' underworld connections. More »

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      Japan  • organized crime  • organ transplants  • UCLA Medical Center  • liver transplants  • Yakuza  • gangsters

    • NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

      Washington Post  |  May 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT

      NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

      (Newser) - New York City is planning a “rapid-organ-recovery ambulance” that would collect the bodies of victims of sudden deaths to be used for organ transplants, hoping to ease a pressing need for donors, the Washington Post reports. But the idea has sparked controversy among health and bioethics experts, concerned over what it might mean for the role of emergency health care. More »

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      New York City  • health care  • organ transplants  • organ donations  • ambulance

    • Battle Brews Over Medical Marijuana, Organ Transplants

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 19, 08 2:27 PM CDT

      Battle Brews Over Medical Marijuana, Organ Transplants

      (Newser) - Potential organ recipients who are using medically prescribed marijuana are being removed from transplant waiting lists, raising serious questions about transplant programs' screening processes, reports the LA Times . A Seattle man died last month after being denied a donor liver, and a critically ill man in Washington state has been bumped from two lists because he uses pot prescribed by a doctor. More »

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      Washington  • medical marijuana  • organ transplants  • medical care  • medical ethics

    • Need Cash? Got a Kidney?

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  May 5, 08 6:17 PM CDT

      Need Cash? Got a Kidney?

      (Newser) - An Australian doctor says the young and healthy should be allowed to sell a kidney for $50,000 Australian (about $47,000 US). Otherwise, patients either languish for years without a needed transplant or travel to third-world countries where they can buy organs on the black market, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. More »

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      Australia  • organ transplants  • kidney transplant  • organ selling

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  • November 2007

    • Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      Chicago Tribune  |  Nov 13, 07 1:07 PM CST

      Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      (Newser) - A flaw in HIV testing procedures led to the infection of four organ-transplant recipients in Chicago, the Tribune reports, the first such cases in more than 20 years. Follow-up tests were never performed, so the four are only now discovering their infections from the January transplants. The donor was flagged as high risk, but doctors decided the patients' need for organs outweighed HIV fears. More »

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      public health  • HIV  • organ transplants  • organ donor

  • June 2007

    • Plane Crash Kills Transplant Team

      CNN  |  Jun 6, 07 4:33 AM CDT

      Plane Crash Kills Transplant Team

      (Newser) - Six members of a transplant team on a life-saving mission were killed when their plane plunged into Lake Michigan, 6 miles from Milwaukee. The AP reports the team included the pilot and co-pilot  of the Cessna Citation, a cardiac surgeon, a transplant donor specialist and a trainee in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. The organs were also lost. More »

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      plane crash  • organ transplants  • transplant  • Lake Michigan

    • Kidney Donor Reality Show Was a Hoax

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 2, 07 10:48 AM CDT

      Kidney Donor Reality Show Was a Hoax

      (Newser) - A controversial Dutch reality show featuring a dying woman’s choice of a kidney recipient aired last night—and was revealed as a hoax. The "donor" was an actor; the contestants were real patients who were in on the prank. A producer said the goal was to call attention to the shortage of donor organs, adding, "We have succeeded in spades." More »

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      health care  • medicine  • reality TV  • organ transplants  • organ donor  • The Big Donor Show  • Endemol

  • May 2007

    • Medical Reality Show Raises Controversy

      BBC  |  May 29, 07 7:46 AM CDT

      Medical Reality Show Raises Controversy

      (Newser) - The brains behind "Big Brother" are branching out into medicine and stirring up serious controversy in the process. "The Big Donor Show," set to air on Dutch TV Friday, follows a terminally ill woman as she chooses among three contestants vying for one of her kidneys. One doctor tells the BBC the program is "ethically totally unacceptable." More »

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      reality TV  • ethics  • organ donor  • organ transplants  • The Big Donor Show  • Endemol

  • April 2007

    • China Has Change of Heart On Transplants

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 6, 07 4:40 PM CDT

      China Has Change of Heart On Transplants

      (Newser) - China is rethinking a major medical cash cow: providing organ transplants for Westerners on overcrowded waiting lists at home. "Transplant tourism" has been a particularly popular option in Israel, where insurers are required to pony up  for overseas operations. But health officials recently ruled that organs should not be given to foreigners when not enough are available for Chinese citizens. More »

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      China  • Israel  • health  • organ transplants  • transplant  • organ harvesting  • waiting list

    • Heart Valve Grown From Stem Cells

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 2, 07 7:11 AM CDT

      (Newser) - A  British team has grown a human heart valve from stem cells—a breakthrough certain to ignite as much controversy as hope. Sir Magdi Yacoub, professor of cardiac surgery at Imperial College, tells the Guardian that growing a whole human heart from stem cells is less than a decade away: "I wouldn't be surprised if it was some day sooner than we think." More »

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      health  • medicine  • stem cells  • stem cell research  • organ transplants  • heart transplants  • bone marrow

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