Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The pilot of a 2007 medical flight that crashed into Lake Michigan, killing all six aboard, mishandled an unusual flight situation and was unable to properly coordinate with his first officer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
A man accused of swindling desperately ill patients out of $400,000 by making false promises of organ transplants has pleaded guilty in New York to five federal wire fraud charges.
Europe's top human rights watchdog launched a probe Monday into Serb allegations that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped Serb civilians during Kosovo's war, then removed their organs and sold the body parts on the black market.
The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
A New York City organ damaged on Sept. 11, 2001, will be played on Good Friday for the first time since the terrorist attacks.
People.com is reporting that Natasha Richardson's family has donated the actress's organs to save other patients' lives. Citing a "family friend" it did not name, the celebrity Web site said Richardson's family had requested her organs be donated after she was taken off life support last week. The report did not say whether any patient had received them.
A fugitive American who claimed he was a psychiatrist will be returned to upstate New York to face federal charges he took $70,000 for a bogus promise of a liver transplant in the Philippines, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
A district attorney says no crimes were committed by officials at a Pennsylvania hospital when an 18-year-old Ohio man's organs were harvested.
Britain should not change its organ-donation law to automatically designate every person a donor unless they or their survivors opt out, an expert panel recommended Monday.
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday lamented the shortage of organs for transplants but denounced any selling of organs as immoral.
Singapore will study the possibility of paying some kidney donors to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said Monday.
Need extra livers hearts or kidneys to transplant because the demand is greater than the supply? The answer, say proponents, is simple. Put a price on kidneys and livers and people will be falling all over one another to sell them. Set the price high enough and hordes will amble into hospitals, sign binding agreements to let themselves be sawed into transplantable bits for cash upon their demise, the thinking goes.
Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.
An Australian doctor proposed Monday that the government pay up to $47,000 for kidney donations to overcome a chronic shortage.
Chinese medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families.
An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step — learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
A 37-year-old woman suffering from an inoperable brain tumor wants to donate a kidney before she dies and will choose the recipient from among three contestants on Dutch national television, a TV network said Tuesday, claiming it wants to highlight a crisis in organ donations.
Ok first of I'm not referring to donating an organ while you are still living. I don't think anyone would want to force someone else to give up a kidney against their will while they are still alive and using it. At least I would hope not.
The hyperventilating by Israel's leaders [1] over a story published in a Swedish newspaper last month [2] suggesting that the Israeli army assisted in organ theft from Palestinians has distracted attention from the disturbing allegations made by Palestinian families that were t …
Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Three Serb agents were arrested in June by Kosova Police, accused of trying to bribe K.Serbs to falsely testify that they were victims of "organ harvesting" during the 1998-99 Serb-Albanian war. The surveillance footage reached RTK public television on August 11
Skin growths saved poisoned Ukrainian president [...]The growths are rearrangements of skin, created from skin stem cells. "A new organ was created out of normal structures of the skin, and the tissue expressed very high levels of dioxin-metabolizing enzymes..."
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino woman as a cover for buying her kidney, trying to circumvent the Philippines' strict new rules to fight organ trafficking, officials said today.
A man who appeared in court accused of flashing his penis at a female train guard has walked free, thanks to a tattoo on his manhood. But the woman had not mentioned any "distinguishing marks" on the penis and Barry has a two inch long lizard tattoo running along his penis.
If you haven't familiarized yourself with the awe-inspiring variety among various species' penises, here's your chance.
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr.
The mother and grandmother of baby Natalie Emami said the girl's organs already have saved the lives of others, including a baby in Texas.
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...as he told The Sunday Telegraph yesterday, he is throwing his weight fully behind a proposal that the organs of the recently deceased should automatically be donated for transplant unless the cadaver had earlier registered its objections.
A 47-year-old man was wrongly declared brain dead by two doctors apparently eager to harvest his organs, reports the LA Times. "They were waiting like vultures, so they could scoop them up," says the patient's daughter, Melanie Sanchez.
Five Dutch health insurers on Monday announced a discount of up to 120 euros, or between five and ten percent, for policy-holders who register whether or not they wish to donate their organs after death.
Researchers reveal patients low on list get worse organs and face lower survival rates.
A woman has become the first person in the world to be given an entirely laboratory-engineered organ in a landmark operation that could change the face of transplant surgery.
Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.
A note from a piece by a US composer is to be played this weekend in a German town in what has been called the world's slowest and longest concert. The church organ in Halberstadt will play the next - sixth - chord of John Cage's As Slow As Possible work.
Two of the most historic and storied instruments in North America are, at last, back and better than ever.
German scholars claimed Tuesday to have found a long-lost organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach dating from the early days of his career.
Over 300 Palestinians have been murdered to harvest their body organs for sale by Israel to America and Europe. 32 are children.
MONTREAL — A Quebec man is trying to sell his diseased pancreas over the Internet after refusing to give the organ to hospital officials.
This is what makes the Chief Justice always angry, he wants a proper ban on trade of human organs, In Pakistan large number of foreigners come to transplant their organs.
Government advisers in the UK would like everyone to be automatic organ doners unless they deliberately opt out of it.