Organ transplant

Should selling organs be legal? Have you ever thought about the possibility of selling their own organs for transplantation? The question, of course is wild, but practice shows that from time to time, is in a difficult financial situation of the inhabitants of our country are beginning thinking outloud about using this opportunity to help others and make some money at the same time. About 75,000 Americans are on the waiting list for kidney transplants. But in the coming year, just…

Not every patient that suffers from a heart failure is a candidate for a heart transplant. Some patients are sometimes too sick or have other medical issues that will not allow their transplant to be successful. In order to determine whether the patient is a candidate for a heart transplant, their medical condition must meet the requirements of the transplant team. Other tests may also be performed such as: echocardiogram, coronary angiogram or peak VO2 assessment. Echocardiogram measures the…

A Policy Proposal for Ethical Organ Donation It is estimated that there are around one hundred and twenty thousand patients waiting on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. The demand for healthy, fresh, and, new organs is high. “According to the National Health Services Blood and Transplant, more than twenty-two million people have pledged to help others after their death by registering their wishes on the National Organ Donor Register. Despite the high number of registered donors,…

Legalization of Organ Trade In 2014, 4,270 people died while being on the kidney transplant list; those 4,270 do not include the 3,617 people who were also on the wait list who became too ill to receive a kidney. Even though 17,000 kidneys were donated in 2014, 12 people continue to die every day due to the shortage of organ availability through organ donation (The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and Scientific Registry of…

In the United States, there has been an increase in the number of organ transplants needed over the years, even though there are not enough donated organs to fill that need. This issue has sparked many ideas in the creation of a remedy to the current organ donation shortage. One of the proposed solutions would be to legalize the sale of human organs, which has many issues woven within it. Through history of organ donations, many people have been saved. However, the proposition…

Working Title Until the 60s heart, liver and pancreas transplants were considered impossible and if you had a transplant there was a high rate of death due to unsuccessful surgery and or organ rejection. The 60s were a wonderful time for medicine and surgery procedures due the constant experiments between twins, other animals and many tests done by different doctors. The 60s had medical Breakthroughs due to the experiments of drugs and medication like azathioprine and many trial and errors. In…

At first read, the author is making a point about organ donors receiving adequate compensation for the donation of one of their kidneys. The authors romanticizes the production of available kidneys to be able to reduce a backlog of around 83,000 people waiting for one, should donor s receive compensation as an incentive to give up one of their kidneys. They also point out economic savings should people have available kidneys, in lieu of the cost of keeping those waiting for a kidney on dialysis.…

Matters: Uncovering and Combating the Horrors of the Organ Shortage The bottom line is that there are not enough organs available for the increasing amount of people who need them. Ever since the first ever organ transplant in 1954, people have been able to give and receive the gift of life, an organ, prolonging and saving the lives of thousands of people; and, with arising medical and technological innovations such as immunosuppressive drugs, organ transplantation is conducted in over ninety…

Every day 18-22 people die waiting for an organ, and “there are now more than 105,000 people on the waiting list for solid organ transplants (womenshealth)”. The organ crisis only continues to grow as the population increases. In fact, a new name is added to the waiting list about every 10 minutes (facts). The use of 3D organ cloning is an ethical alternate to full body cloning to aid in the organ shortage crisis in this country. Cloning Cloning involves taking DNA from a cell, and implanting…

Ever since Joseph Murray performed the first successful human organ transplant of a kidney in 1954 [13], organ transplantation has been a widely debated ethical issue. The allocation of scarce medical resources has been the subject of many debates encompassing but not limited to issues regarding moral worth, financial practicality, legal rights, social status and justice. As the number of people added to the transplant waiting lists increase and the number of convicts’ increase, the question…