A recent study conducted in dying patients, published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (1), was able to demonstrate how the global cerebral hypoxia that occurs in these patients after withdrawal of their ventilatory support markedly stimulated [...]

From October, children conceived in the United Kingdom since April 2005 through assisted reproduction techniques that have used donor eggs or sperm will be able to know the identity of their biological parents. The changes in the Law regarding sperm [...]

Scientists in Toronto, Canada, have developed a technique that could make organs for transplantation suitable for any recipient, avoiding the need to find compatible organs, facilitating equity in the allocation of this valuable medical resource. The research, published in Science [...]

The diagnosis of death by neurological criteria, often called brain death, has been contentious since its conception in 1968 through a publication entitled “A Definition of Irreversible Coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to [...]

What happened in relation to transplant programs during the COVID-19 pandemic? The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic has had and continues to have consequences, not only for patients directly infected by the virus, but consequences that also extend to economic, social, and [...]

An article published in the British Medical Journal – BMJ (April 13, 2021) about organ transplantation in China reports the scientific community and bioethicists’ concerns about the systematical violation of human rights in China. The heading says, “Harrowing but credible [...]

Uterus transplantation presents serious ethical problems from the perspective of both the recipient and the donor, and even the future baby. In this respect we have published several articles on this issue, read HERE. Medical aspects The first uterus transplant [...]

A new approach to alleviating the shortage of sperm donors in Britain was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (01/08/2020). The article in question mainly centers around a proposal that would allow men to give consent for their sperm to [...]

Recently, an article entitled “National Recommendations on Pediatric Donation” was published in Spanish journal Anales de Pediatría – Annals of Pediatrics – ( read HERE) The article is a summary of a consensus document drawn up by the Spanish National [...]

The emergence of the concept of brain death at the end of the 1960s was a controversial fact, although today it is widely accepted in most developed countries. Nevertheless, there are still some issues for discussion in this regard, including [...]

Solid-organ transplantation activity has decreased even in regions where COVID-19 prevalence was low, suggesting a global effect beyond the local COVID-19 prevalence. A recent article published in Nature approaches liver transplantation (LT) programs worldwide during the coronavirus crisis makes a review [...]

Opt-out law bioethical issues The opt-out law that presumes that all persons want to donate their organ, excluding informed consent, continues to be an issue of debate between ethicists and the Catholic Church. Defensors of the law argue that Spain [...]