Organ donation euthanasia is gaining traction in the world of bioethics.
Specialists call for red tape to be cut to allow simpler donation procedures.
A team of researchers in the US have performed a series of remarkably successful interspecies organ transplants.
"Ghoulish" proposal in the Journal of Medical Ethics criticised by British politicians
In spite of promises for reform, the Chinese government is still using the organs of harvested prisoners.
What will happen when transplants merely improve lives, not save them?
Alabama judge tells offenders to donate blood if they don't want to be fined
Claims that they are too weak to work and rebuild their homes
Doctors in a hospital in Bremen had already made an incision when they discovered that a deceased donor was still alive
Why waste valuable organs?
The number of organs available for transplant in the Netherlands could double.
The academic conversation on brain death continues, with the American journal of Bioethics publishing a special issue on the status of death determined by neurological criteria (DDNC).
A number of healthcare commentators are calling for ‘compensation’ for donors.
A car crash victim who doctors thought had no chance of survival has made an amazing recovery.
UK paediatricians want the government to allow “brain-dead” newborns to donate organs.
Some American politicians have discovered how to reconcile punishment and compassion: allow prisoners on death row to donate their organs.
A little-known debate in bioethics circles centres on whether we should be able to inherit organs.
If living kidney donors were paid $10,000, transplants would increase by at least 5%, according to a study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Everywhere it is tough to persuade people to become organ donors, even after they have died. This is a great advertisement from Leo Burnett Zurich.
Should a mentally incompetent person be allowed to donate organs?
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