There is an excellent article in this month’s Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England about the use of placebo surgery in clinical trials of surgical interventions. The article discusses many of the practical and ethical issues around the use of placebo procedures, including when they should and should not be considered. Interestingly, […]
The HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (HOPE) passed the House of Representatives in the USA on November 12th and it is now ready to go to President Obama for his signature having been passed by the Senate a month or two ago. This will reverse the current legal ban in the USA which was enacted […]
This editorial by Professor Daniel Sokol on Surgical Ethics is well worth noting. Professor Sokol is a Barrister and also a Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics at Imperial College. He has written a very perceptive editorial on this subject which is entirely relevant to transplant surgeons. But he also makes the point that the pamphlet […]
The latest World Health Organization bulletin publishes an interview with Haibo Wang who is the Director of the China Organ Transplant Response System Research Centre for the Ministry of Health, a position he has held since 2011. He is interviewed by Fiona Fleck of the WHO and it is a very interesting interview, particularly with […]