About
The Center for Ethical Solutions (CES) is focused on finding practical answers to the difficult questions of medical ethics and health policy — answers that look beyond the preconceived and the usual, and that provide people with options that might otherwise be overlooked.
Our officers, advisors, and researchers are what set CES apart: We pride ourselves on placing a higher value on solving problems than on finding answers that fit neatly into any particular political framework. We don’t deny that each of us has come to this project with a well-developed sense of our own political and moral beliefs. However, when faced with issues as urgent as the organ shortage, or as personal as doctor/patient-directed pain management, or as unthinkable as the state of medical care available to our veterans, allowing politics to dictate the scope of options available to people is simply unthinkable. If such considerations limited the scope of our studies as well, we wouldn’t be able to call this endeavor, “the Center for Ethical Solutions.”
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Soldier gives NCO ‘gift of life’ at Walter Reed
The Organ Transplant Service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center serves the military community around the world needing liver, kidney and/or pancreas transplants. WRAMC is the only transplant specialty center in the Department of Defense.Japan may end ban on child organ donations
Japanese lawmakers plan to scrap soon a ban on organ donations by children that has forced families of young patients to look overseas for transplants, lawmakers said Tuesday.Federal organ donation plan faces local opposition
Under the federal proposal, patients in Wisconsin who need a liver transplant would have to compete against transplant candidates in Illinois and Minnesota for donor organs. About 75 percent of organs donated in Wisconsin stay in Wisconsin. Under the proposed system, less than 40 percent of livers donated in Wisconsin would stay in Wisconsin, the donor network and hospitals say.Very public baby transplant saga raises tricky ethical issues
Kaylee Wallace, seemingly dying of a congenital disease and Lillian O'Connor, whose heart cannot supply her tiny body with the oxygen it needs, were linked by the possibility that the former might save the latter's life. The saga was being played out in real time on TV networks, news websites and in the pages of newspapers, with the names of all the players attached. The very public nature of the case concerns many medical ethicists who feel a deep sense of unease as they watch it unfold.Expanded criteria donors offer hope for patients needing kidney transplant
The National Kidney Foundation says that “rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States have increased by more than 20% over the past decade, causing dramatic loss of life and sky-rocketing health care costs, according to the 2008 annual report by the US Renal Data System.” CKD is now estimated to affect nearly 27 million adult Americans.Current Projects
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Solving the Organ Shortage
In the United States, 18 people die every day waiting for an organ donation that never comes. In 2007 alone, 9,600 patients died or became too ill to undergo surgery while waiting. The sad fact is, this is how 1 out of every 5 people is removed from the 99,000-person U.S. Transplant Waiting List. Almost 90% of these people were in need of organs that could have been donated by living donors with relative safety... -
Meeting the Medical Needs of America’s Veterans
Through this project, The Center for Ethical Solutions will consider the special medical needs of America's veterans. The Organization plans to fund scholars to research and analyze veterans’ medical needs and related policies.