Hacker News with Generative AI: Medical Ethics

Neurosurgeon prepared to perform first human head transplant (popularmechanics.com)
The Western medical establishment ousted him. China embraced him. Will the man on a mission to perform the first human head transplant ever pull it off?
Neurosurgery, Medical Ethics, China, Transplants, Science
4 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | 2 comments
Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say (npr.org)
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.
Medical Ethics, Organ Donation, Transplantation
93 points by BostonFern 34 days ago | 71 comments
Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents (nytimes.com)
Health, Medical Ethics, Business, Parenting
10 points by acallaha 129 days ago | 1 comments
The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennials' Deaths from Cancer (theatlantic.com)
Health, Millennials, Cancer, Medical Ethics
7 points by jseliger 139 days ago | 1 comments
Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mt Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA (statnews.com)
Medical Ethics, Healthcare, FDA, Neuroscience
101 points by chapulin 190 days ago | 54 comments
Conjoined twins who refused to be 'fixed' (theatlantic.com)
Medical Ethics, Health, Human Interest
16 points by fortran77 198 days ago | 14 comments
Ex-Harvard morgue manager indicted for trafficking body parts (reuters.com)
Crime, Law Enforcement, Harvard University, Medical Ethics
15 points by tomcam 214 days ago | 3 comments
Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials (bbc.com)
Medical Ethics, Health, Scandal, Clinical Trials, UK
123 points by fidotron 216 days ago | 86 comments