Transplants in the News
November 2008
The Gap Between Supply and Demand
As demand for life-saving transplant surgery grows, the idea of paying donors is gaining support.
November 19, 2008
Nanoscaffolding Regrows Limbs, Organs
By using ultra-fine polymer fibers, military researchers have been able to regrow damaged or missing organs and limbs. They will announce their findings officially next month at the 26th Army Science Conference in Florida.
November 17, 2008
Kidney Cancer Patients Denied Life-Saving Drug in UK
High costs are forcing the NHS to choose between buying expensive drugs for terminal patients and providing more services for a wider number of people. About 800 of 3,000 cancer patients lose their appeals for regulator-approved drugs each year because of cost. The U.K. is considering whether to make permanent a preliminary ruling that four medicines, including Sutent, are too expensive to be part of the government-funded treatment of advanced kidney cancer.
November 2, 2008
Pig Organs Available to Humans in A Decade
Organs from pigs could be widely available for transplanting into patients in a decade. The first organs suitable for transplanting, most likely kidneys, are expected to be ready within three years and, if tests are successful, their use could be widespread by 2018.
June 2, 2008
Four Japanese Gangsters Get Liver Transplants at UCLA
The potential for corruption within the monopolistic organ procurement organizations was demonstrated at UCLA where four Japanese gangsters received liver transplants ahead of US citizens waiting for life-saving organs.
May 26, 2008
Are Kidneys a Commodity?
Lloyd Cohen thinks people should have the right to buy or sell organs.
Dutch May Give Financial Rewards to Kidney Donors
The Dutch health minister is considering a recommendation to offer free health insurance for life to anyone who donates a kidney for transplant.
April 17, 2008
Panel Debates Whether Paying For Organs Would Save Lives
The American Enterprise Institute hosts a panel to debate the viability of providing incentives to promote organ donation. The indomitable Sally Satel advanced the cause of introducing incentives.
April 14, 2008
Immigration Debate Hits Home for Liver Transplant Patients
LA Times
Detailed stories of illegal immigrants who received state funded liver transplants and are now required to pay for their own care. Unfortunately, the US citizens who were waiting for the same livers that were transplanted into the illegal aliens are permanently unavailable for comment.
April 13, 2008
DESPERATELY ILL MOTHER DENIED DAUGHTER'S KIDNEY
UK Express - UK
By Jane Wharton A Mother in desperate need of a kidney transplant has suffered double anguish after being refused her dead daughter’s “perfect match” organ. I'm sure it's for the greater good.
April 9, 2008
Six Get Kidneys in Simultaneous Transplant
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
The quintuple transplant also involved an altruistic donor and four transplant candidates who had willing, but incompatible donors.