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An unidentified Filipino man who sold his kidney for a transplant shows his scar while cooking at his home in a slum of Manila.

How Costa Rica became the epicenter of the black market in kidneys

Medicine

A year-long investigation by the New York Times shows the huge unmet need for kidney transplants across the world, and how Costa Rica has become a key place for people willing to buy themselves off of massive waiting lists.

The World

Altruistic Organ Donor Harry Kiernan

Global Politics

An estimated two-thirds of organ transplants in China come from executed prisoners

Bioethicist discusses why hospitals may deny transplants for intellectually disabled

Health & Medicine

Transplant Patients Compete in Olympic-like Games

Sports

In China, Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners

Global Politics

Marco Werman talks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing about the Chinese practice of harvesting human organs from executed prisoners. About two thirds of organs transplanted in China come from executed prisoners.

60 Lives Connected in the Largest Chain of Kidney Transplants

Coming up, when Candice needed a kidney, her husband Michael was ready to give one up — but her body wouldn’t accept it. So he gave it to someone else — in order let his wife get a stranger’s kidney. They’re part of the longest-ever chain of donors and recipients and they join program, next.

The Bioethics of Denying Patients Organ Transplants

Three-year-old Amelia Rivera  has a rare genetic disease called Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. She suffers from mental impairment, epileptic-like seizures, and she can’t walk or talk. Besides her illness she’s in desperate need of a kidney transplant to live to see her fourth birthday. But the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Amelia is treated, told Amelia’s family that […]

How Risky Are Live Organ Donations?

Global Politics

An organ transplant recipient contracted HIV from a kidney donation at a New York hospital. It’s the nation’s first documented case of HIV transmission via a living donor transplant since the 1980s. How did this happen? What are the repercussions?

The World

The Race Blind Heart

Transplant doctors learn that the heart is color blind.