Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China
Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor...
Is it possible to transplant heads?
Heaven has different meanings for different people. For some transhumanists HEAVEN is an acronym for (HEad Anastomosis VENture), an attempt by an Italian and a...
Report: Chinese doctors have participated in organ donation executions of prisoners
Shocking allegations about Chinese organ donation have been made in a leading journal, the American Journal of Transplantation. An Australian researcher and an Israeli transplant...
Are Nigerian prisoners in China being killed for their organs?
Although it has produced no hard evidence, a Nigerian NGO fears that some Nigerians in Chinese jails have been killed for their organs. The head...
Recipient of transplanted pig heart dies
David Bennett, the 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart, died on...
Chinese gangs using ‘blood slaves’
Organ transplant technology has led to well-documented abuses. But it’s novel to hear of blood transfusion as a criminal activity. The South China Morning Post...
Hungry Afghans selling their kidneys — and their daughters
Reports like this should be tempered with scepticism, but there are persistent rumours that families in Afghanistan are selling organs and even their children to...
US doctors transplant pig heart into human
Surgeons in the United States have implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human patient in a global first, the University of...
Pig kidney transplanted to human patient
NYU Langone Health / photo by Joe Carrotta The first transplant of a genetically engineered, non-human kidney to a human body was recently completed at NYU...
China responds to allegations of organ harvesting
Falun Gong protesters against organ harvesting in China BioEdge and many other publications have highlighted claims by the NGO Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) that...
Need a kidney? No deal, unless you’re vaccinated
A Colorado hospital has refused transplant surgery to a woman who is unwilling to have the Covid-19 vaccine. Leilani Lutali, 56, is a born-again Christian of...
‘A pure act of altruism’: organ donation after euthanasia
Dutch physicians argue for at-home euthanasia before retrieving organs Organ donation after euthanasia is possible in the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada. However, it still is...