How to Construct Better Organ Donation Policy and Achieve Health Equity
A choice-preserving opt-out framework can help balance the need for more organs with liberal societies’ aversion to paternalism.
Organ Donation
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Read more: Recent Organ Procurement Organization Regulations Will Save Lives Recent Organ Procurement Organization Regulations Will Save Lives
HHS’s OPO reforms will help 7,000 more patients receive lifesaving transplant every year, as well as help address a major healthcare inequity.
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Read more: How to Encourage Organ Donation How to Encourage Organ Donation
A discussion of strategies to encourage organ donation and to address inequities relating to transplantation.
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Read more: Opt-in vs. Opt-out Organ Donation Schemes: Evidence from the US and UK Opt-in vs. Opt-out Organ Donation Schemes: Evidence from the US and UK
In considering the best way to increase organ donation, much of the debate has focused on how to make organ donor registries more successful.
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Read more: New Regulations for Organ Procurement Organizations Pose Concerns New Regulations for Organ Procurement Organizations Pose Concerns
A poorly crafted regulatory change could disrupt our world-leading organ transplantation system and put patients at risk.
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Read more: New Regulation Aims at Accountability for Organ Procurement Organizations New Regulation Aims at Accountability for Organ Procurement Organizations
Recently finalized regulations seek to hold Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) more accountable for their performance.
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Read more: Considerations for a Zombie Apocalypse: The Definition of Death Among the “Walking Dead” Considerations for a Zombie Apocalypse: The Definition of Death Among the “Walking Dead”
By Stephen Wood While there has been a great deal in the literature that discusses the ethics of neurologic, cardiopulmonary and biologic death in the context of organ donation, there has been very little attention to this application with regard to zombies. Zombies are often referred to as “living-dead” which creates both a scientific, operational,…
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Read more: Rethinking Organ Donation: When Altruism Isn’t Enough Rethinking Organ Donation: When Altruism Isn’t Enough
By Gali Katznelson The demand for donated organs greatly outweighs the supply. In the United States alone, there are roughly 115,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Every ten minutes, a new person is added to the recipient list, and every day, 20 people on the list die waiting. To be an organ donor in…
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Read more: Chimeras with benefits? Transplants from bioengineered human/pig donors Chimeras with benefits? Transplants from bioengineered human/pig donors
By Brad Segal In January of this year, Cell published a study modestly titled, Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells. It reports success bioengineering a mostly-pig partly-human embryo. One day before, Nature published a report that scientists had grown (for lack of a better word) a functioning genetically-mouse pancreas within the body of a…
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Read more: Organs and Overdoses (Part II): ‘Higher risk’ donors Organs and Overdoses (Part II): ‘Higher risk’ donors
By Brad Segal In my last post I characterized how overdoses from the surging opioid epidemic have become the fastest-growing cause of mortality among organ donors. In this update, I raise one potential consequence with ethical and policy implications: so-called donor-derived infections. To be clear, I focus primarily on organ recipients as deaths from drug overdose,…