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By J. Adebukola Awosogba, M.A. It has been 43 years since the media learned of the federally funded Tuskegee Syphilis study, and just 5 years since the US apologized for conduct of unethical STD research in Guatemalan prisons and mental institutions during the 1940s. In order to investigate and prevent such atrocities, the Presidential Commission [...]
By Caroline Song A story recently published by ABC News focuses on the Knickerbockers, a young family from Huntley, Illinois. Their son, Noah Knickerbocker, was born with an aortic valve stenosis and needed a heart transplant to survive. Since coming into the world five months ago, Noah has received care from the Wisconsin Children’s Hospital. [...]
By Andrew Rock The Connecticut Supreme Court recently ruled that 17-year-old Cassandra is not competent to make her own medical decisions and ordered her to continue receiving chemotherapy treatments. She will be required to receive treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma at a hospital in Hartford. Patients who undergo chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma survive nearly 85% of [...]
By Josephine Adebukola Awosogba The start up world has given us social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter as well as mobile grocery delivery with Instacart. Tech start ups offer the public innovation and excitement. In the field of biomedical engineering, they have the ability to launch medicine into the future. The difficult part is [...]
By Richard Balagtas Katherine Don writes from a perspective shared by many women today, one concerning the difficulties associated with conception. After Don suffered from her third consecutive miscarriage, Don's mother offed to help in any way she could, even if it meant taking on the role of a surrogate. Was this even possible given her advanced age? What [...]
By Kaitlyn Schaeffer Dr. Mark Donowitz at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is interested in ridding the world of diarrheal disease-related deaths. Every year, more than 800,000 children succumb to diseases such as cholera, rotavirus, and some strains of the bacteria E. coli. “We’ve failed so far to find drugs to treat diarrhea using cell [...]
By Caroline Song A new state law in Illinois that provides funding for undocumented immigrants to receive kidney transplants went into effect this past October. It may be the first law of its kind in the United States. There are currently 686 undocumented immigrants in Illinois enrolled in the state’s kidney dialysis program. Opponents worry [...]
By Kaitlyn Schaeffer Every year around 6000 people choose to make living donations; most donate kidneys to people they know, such as friends and family, but many make donations to strangers. There have been many calls for more people do donate kidneys while they’re still alive, but this mobilization has encountered some road bumps: the [...]
By Caroline Song A study conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) looked at over 100,000 deaths that occurred in hospitals from 2008 to 2012. The report found that most organ donations come from patients that are declared brain dead. The study suggests accepting more donations from cardiovascular failure or death if the [...]
On December 5, 2014 Fordham University Center for Ethics Education bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Yuko has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to improving quality of life in vulnerable populations globally, through research, education and policy change recommendations. Yuko, the program administrator for the Fordham [...]
