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Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Tadamasa, Lara Logan, Ucla Ethics, UCLA Medical Center, Crime, Organ Donation, Ucla, Organ Transplants, Ucla Medical Center Ethics, Fbi, Goto, Tokyo, 60 Minutes, Yakuza Liver Transplants, John Gotti, Mob, Yakuza, Japan, Health Care, Tadamasa Goto, World News

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

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

Deborah Calla | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Organ Transplant, Health Care, Organ Trafficking, Organ Transplants, Living News
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.

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China Daily Paper: Executed Prisoners Currently Provide Two-Thirds Of All Transplant Organs

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Death Row Organ Use, Death Row, China, Organ Transplants, World News

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs. The government is now launching a...

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State Media: China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Medicine, Organ Transplants, Health Care, Chinese Organ Transplants, China Health Care, China, Prisons, Death Row, World News

BEIJING — China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, w...

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Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Egyptian Organ Trade, Organ Trade, Organ Transplant, Organ Transplants, World Health Organization, World Health, Black Market, World News

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...

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