China accused of sequencing Tibetan and Uyghur DNA to supply organ transplant market
A committee of the US Congress has heard shocking testimony about alleged forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners in China. The chairman...
Opt-out scheme for UK organ donation flounders
England’s opt-out scheme for organ donation does not seem to be working. Rolled out in 2020, the system was supposed to provide an 100 extra donors...
Incentivising family consent for organ donation
Doctors and economists are always searching for ways to make more organs available for transplant. With a market in organs off the table in most...
Second recipient of genetically modified pig heart transplant dies
In a setback for the field of xenotransplantation, Lawrence Faucette, the second person in the world to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant, died...
Same old, same old: our enemies are harvesting our organs
Right on schedule, four weeks after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, are allegations that one side is harvesting organs from captives...
A second pig heart transplant appears to be successful
A 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart on...
Belgians opting out of their opt-in organ donation policy
The number of Belgians who say they are ready to donate their organs after their death has reached a record number, as has the number...
Pakistani police break up organ trafficking gang
Pakistani police have arrested eight members of a organ transplant gang who allegedly are involved in 328 illegal kidney transplants. The ringleader, according to the...
Hope, hype and xenotransplantation
On January 7, 2022 David Bennett, a 57-year-old with terminal heart disease, made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart....
Could newborns solve the kidney shortage crisis?
Kidneys from newborn babies could be a “game-changing” solution to organ shortage crisis, according to an American study. According to a paper presented at the...
Should uterus transplants for transwomen get insurance cover?
Insurance cover in the United States for contraception, abortion, and transgender procedures is controversial, especially if private insurers are responsible. Cases have gone all the...
Police bust kidney network that exploited desperate Indonesians
Jakarta police have arrested 12 people, including a policeman and an immigration officer, for trafficking 122 Indonesians to Cambodia to sell their kidneys. The victims,...