Organ Transplant

What My Late Husband's Organ Transplant Taught Me About the Health Industry

Deborah Calla | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living


Deborah Calla

We must have health reform in this country, otherwise even the people who have PPOs may find themselves needing coverage that their policies don't offer. No one should suffer or die because of money.

Jerome Feldman Swindled Sick Patients With Promises Of Organ Transplants

AP | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York


SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A man accused of swindling desperately ill patients out of $400,000 by making false promises of organ transplants has pleaded g...

Forced, Illegal Organ Trafficking During Kosovo War To Be Probed

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 09.03.2009 | World


BELGRADE, Serbia — Europe's top human rights watchdog launched a probe Monday into Serb allegations that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped Se...

Illegal Organ Trafficking Poses A Global Problem

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.24.2009 | World


The recent New Jersey corruption probe, which resulted in the arrest of 44 people including state legislators, government officials and several rabbis...

Jason Linkins

Louisiana Republican Warns Of Organ Rationing That Already Occurs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


Just a little while ago, GOP Rep. Steve Scalise from Louisiana was riven with concern over the terrifying prospect of government intervention in healt...

Should We Really Fear Reproductive Human Cloning?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics


Jacob M. Appel

The president has not explained precisely why he opposes reproductive cloning. Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks of cloning techniques, or on moral grounds?

Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 04.17.2009 | World


CAIRO — The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidn...

Organ Grown From Stem Cells In Lab Successfully Transplanted In (VIDEO)

The Daily Telegraph | Kate Devlin | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living


Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bri...