Medscape Transplantation Podcast

Dr Szczech provides a sobering view on what extreme actions uninsured immigrants are taking to push their symptom boundaries to near death every week in order to get emergent hemodialysis.

With organs for transplant in short supply, it's vital to talk to patients--even if they are elderly or have a disease like HIV--about the prospect of becoming donors, an ethicist says.

Drs Sudhir Kushwaha and Rocky Daly share their considerations in reverse-order heart-liver transplant cases at Mayo's Heart Transplant Clinic.

Dr Leana Wen, city health commissioner for Baltimore, speaks with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Dr Eric Topol about her work as an emergency medicine physician and public health advocate.

Bioethicist Art Caplan argues that doctors shouldn't try to separate the saints from the sinners on transplant waiting lists.

Henry Black and George Lundberg on combating the misinformation in consumer medical news, the ethics of the physician as entertainer, and other ills that plague medical reporting.

Dr Harold Burstein gets an oncologist's behind-the- cameras view of 'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,' from Barak Goodman, director of the Ken Burns documentary.

How have advances in ventricular assist devices improved the care of children with heart disease?

A woman born without a womb had a uterus transplanted and successfully became pregnant and gave birth. This event turned out happily, but it raises many ethical issues.

New studies have raised serious questions about the risks faced by living kidney donors. Drs. Jeffrey Berns and Peter Reese tease out the issues to offer some guidance for clinicians.