Midday on Ethics

Meharry Medical College students Emmanuel Kotey, center, and Teresa Belledent, right, watch as the liver and kidneys are removed from an organ donor June 15, 2023, in Jackson, Tenn. They’re part of a novel pilot program to encourage more Black and other minority doctors-to-be to get involved in the transplant field, increasing the trust of patients of color. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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Innovations in organ retrieval pose ethical questions

Tom Hall

Midday on Ethics: Tom speaks with Dr. Jeff Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Bermin Institute of Bioethics about problems posed by a new organ retrieval process.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Ethics and the future of human reproduction

Tom Hall

The director of Hopkins' Berman Institute of Bioethics discusses how medical tech is impacting the ways we make our babies. An estimated 2% of US-born babies are now conceived in labs, as part of an in-vitro fertilization industry worth more than $23 billion.

An artist's rendering of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. (CDC)

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Midday on Ethics: Dr. Jeffrey Kahn on the perils of biological research

Tom Hall

The director of Hopkins' Berman Institute of Bioethics discusses so-called "dual-use research of concern" and the dark side of biological research.

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, a position he assumed in July 2016. (photo courtesy Berman Institute)

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Midday on Ethics: Dr. Jeffrey Kahn on using animals as organ donors

Tom Hall

The director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics discusses the implications of recent milestone medical procedures using animal organs for human transplant patients.