Background. There is a shared global commitment to improving baseline donation and
transplantation performance metrics in a manner consistent with ethics and local cultural and …

BC Transplant and Transplant Quebec explain their positions on following families’ wishes
on the basis that families may know if their loved one had changed his or her mind. By law, a …

Few areas of scientific inquiry have received the amount of attention from politicians, the media
and the ethics community that research involving human stem cells has received. A large …

Although non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) marks a notable development in the field of
prenatal genetic testing, there are some physician liability considerations raised by this …

The growing international market for unproven stem cell-based interventions advertised on
a direct-to-consumer basis over the internet ("stem cell tourism") is a source of concern …

3. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada 4. Institute for
Biomedical Ethics, Universität Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 5. Center for Law and the …

Inclusion of compatible living donor and recipient pairs (CPs) in kidney paired donation (KPD)
programs could increase living donor transplantation. We introduce the concept of a …

As organ donation rates remain unable to meet the needs of individuals waiting for transplants,
it is necessary to identify reasons for this shortage and develop solutions to address it. …

In an increasingly globalized world, many challenges to human health are beyond the
capabilities of any individual state to effectively address. While there are relatively few sources of …

Background. Biobanks are an important research resource that provides researchers with
biological samples, tools and data, but have also been associated with a range of ethical, …