[Physorg] In what doctors described Wednesday as a world first, a Danish woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using ovarian tissue that was removed, frozen, thawed and then reimplanted after cancer treatment.
It is being hailed as a breakthrough for young women whose hope of one day becoming mothers could [...]

[Reason.com] In November, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He appointed political scientist and University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann as the chair of the new Bioethics Commission. Such commissions are charged with working through tough questions about intellectual property rights, the protection [...]

Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy. It will take lots more research to see if the fix lasts, to find out if the lungs work as well back inside a body as they do inside [...]

[NYTimes] When Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, appeared in public recently for the first time in months, he revealed that he had received a liver transplant from the victim of a car crash. “I wouldn’t be here without such generosity,” Mr. Jobs said, adding that he hoped that many people would become organ donors.  [...]

The seamy underside of the organ transplant business made the news recently when Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman, was arrested on accusations of trying to broker the purchase of a kidney for $160,000.
That the organ shortage is so great in this country that people are resorting to buying and selling kidneys is not a surprise; [...]

[Huffington Post] Just a little while ago, GOP Rep. Steve Scalise from Louisiana was riven with concern over the terrifying prospect of government intervention in health care. He came armed with a sob story that really just goes to show the lengths to which people will go to obfuscate the underlying issues.
SCALISE: When you look [...]

[NYT] JUNE 30, 2009 – Need a kidney? You may be able to buy one in Pakistan, which has become one of the world’s largest “kidney bazaars,” according to an article published in the May-June issue of The Hastings Center Report, a bioethics journal.
But who sells their kidneys, and what becomes of these people afterwards? The article, [...]

[WSJ Health Blog] Can a sperm bank be sued for selling sperm that causes a child to be born with a genetic disease? Yes, a federal judge has ruled. Here’s the opinion.
The case was brought on behalf of a 13-year-old girl with fragile X syndrome, a common inherited form of mental retardation.
While the judge dismissed [...]

[The Star] Dead is dead, except when it’s not.
“Death used to be a little more self-evident,” says Kerry Bowman, a medical ethicist specializing in end of life issues at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics.
“Today, you’re dead when the doctor says you are.”
Deciding when somebody is dead or about to die is quickly [...]

A long Island man, Richard Batista, is demanding his kidney back after  donating it to his wife Dawnell in 2001 after two previous failed transplants.
Despite telling the New York Daily News that there is “no value you can put on an organ when it saves someone’s life. There is no greater feeling on this planet,”  he is suing Dawnell [...]