Articles on Organ Trade
A Moral Market
Sunday is the 30th anniversary of the National Organ Transplant Act, but no one wants to celebrate...
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Foreigners, desperate and able to pay for transplants, find hope in U.S.
More than 200 international patients receive organ transplants in the United States every year, paying top dollar for access to the nation's limited supply of organs...
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Why People Don’t Donate Their Kidneys
WASHINGTON — The national transplant list just passed a morbid milestone: More than 100,000 people now wait for kidneys...
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Struggling Britons offer to sell kidneys on Facebook
Desperate Britons are turning to Facebook to advertise their organs for sale at up to £30,000 despite the medical and legal risks involved, according to reports...
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Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs
In 2012, 95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ...
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Lebanese Black Market: Syrian Refugees Sell Organs to Survive
In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, a growing number of refugees are surviving in Lebanon by illegally selling their own organs. But the exchange comes at a huge cost...
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China to end use of prisoners’ organs in 2014
China, the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, plans to end the controversial practice by the middle of next year, a senior official said on Saturday...
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Check Up: Time to consider paying for kidneys?
Paying people to give up their organs is unethical. That's why it's a crime under the National Organ Transplant Act...
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How to Fix the Organ Transplant Shortage
The plight of Sarah Murnaghan made headlines over the past several weeks. The 10-year-old girl suffers from cystic fibrosis, a crippling respiratory ailment. She was dying, but she was deemed ineligible—then, after an uproar, eligible—for an adult lung transplant...
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Bioengineered kidney transplanted into rat
Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, organ successfully produces urine...
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Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe
Pavle Mircov and his partner, Daniella, nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes...
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Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
The illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that an estimated 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs now take place annually, or more than one an hour, World Health Organisation experts have revealed...
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Organ trafficking: Dutch to lead international inquiry
A Dutch medical research centre is to lead an international investigation into the trafficking of human organs...
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Kosovo Prosecutor Demands New Organ-Trafficking Charges
The prosecution said fresh charges should be brought because "appalling" new evidence had emerged during the trial for alleged illicit kidney-trading at a Kosovo clinic...
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Humanitarian and financial motives intertwine all the time
Several nations have started forming laws and policies to help donors in many ways...
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