Showing posts with label organ sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organ sales. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Organ trafficking in America, on National Geographic TV, premiering tomorrow

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National Geographic TV tweets about a new series on organ trafficking, premiering tomorrow night, with a video trailer that suggests that th...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Two illegal (former) kidney transplant networks analyzed: the Netcare -and Medicus cases, by Ambagtsheer and Bugter

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 There aren't many successful prosecutions resulting from illegal organ trafficking, despite the fact that the prevalence of illegal kid...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Intergalactic market for organs

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 Sometimes it seems that those who are most worried about markets for kidneys are worried about different things than those who are most wor...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Black market kidney transplants to UK patients? An inflammatory article in the Daily Mail

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There seems to be good evidence that kidneys for transplantation are bought and sold in some parts of the world. However I'm not aware ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

More commentary on the shortage of transplantable kidneys, and compensation for donors

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The recent editorial by McCormick, Held and Chertow continues to attract comments.  Here are three more. From the Washington Post: What ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Organ donation in Germany

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Organ donation in Germany is declining, from an already low rate.  Die WirtschaftsWoche has the story in their February 19 issue: Die Z...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Super bowl thought by Kim Krawiec: football players are paid, why not kidney donors?

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While checking up on the super bowl, I'm reminded that Kim Krawiec posted this:  Super Bowl Week OpEd "As the Super Bowl appro...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Buying body parts is easy, as long as you don't use them for transplants

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Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade A REUTERS SERIES Part 1: When Americans leave their bodies to science, they are also dona...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Frank Delmonico and the recent organ transplant meeting at the Vatican

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When I was in Trento, I participated in a panel on markets for human organs , and had the chance to ask Dr. Ignazio Marino about the recent...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Egypt arrests 'organ trafficking ring'

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The BBC has the story:  Egypt arrests 'organ trafficking ring' Egyptian authorities have arrested doctors, nurses and professors ...

Black markets for kidney transplants--arrests in Israel

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A late December story of black markets and law enforcement from the Times of Israel: 2 charged with running international organ traffic ri...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Suspected organ trafficker arrested

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YNet has the story: Turkish authorities arrest Israeli suspected of organ trafficking Boris Wolfman, who was indicted in Israel but manage...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The grey market for fetal tissue (it can't be sold for a profit, but profits can be made on processing)

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There has been recent attention to fetal stem cells, which are used in research into a number of diseases. The NY Times has the story: Fe...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

New reports that China to stop harvesting executed prisoners' organs

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But no word on how they propose to manage the transition from executed prisoners to developing a voluntary source of donated organs for tra...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

"The organ detective:" article about anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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An interesting long article by Ethan Watters in the July/August issue of the Pacific Standard:  The Organ Detective: A Career Spent Uncover...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Black markets and black market prices

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A website call Havocscope (subtitle: Global Black Market Information) compiles information from news stories and other public sources abou...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

The law and politics of bone marrow and compensation for donors

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The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing new regulations that would put bone marrow more clearly into the class of organs f...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Ron Paul on paying organ donors

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Ron Paul: End government control of organ transplants and compensate donors "In his  weekly Texas Straight Talk column  — which has c...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Organs and tissue markets and black markets

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NPR has a series of posts on tissue donation, which includes bones and sinews, and for which there's a regulated market, but also a blac...