Row grows over Dutch organ donor show
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The Dutch government criticized plans to air a reality television show during which a dying woman chooses a recipient for her kidneys, saying on Tuesday that the show was unethical.
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The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.
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An Indian court's refusal to allow a terminally-ill patient to donate his organs triggers a legal debate.
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A Dutch TV show where patients will battle it out for a life-saving kidney donation is to go ahead despite widespread protests. By Michael Leidig.
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Dutch doctors are shocked by a higher than expected mortality rate in a clinical trial for acute pancreatitis.
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In a new Dutch program, three desperately ill candidates will compete for a single donor kidney. Lifesaving reality, or a new low for reality TV?
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Authorities have arrested three organ brokers in the state of Tamil Nadu, where hundreds of people say they've illegally sold their organs while government authorities turned a blind eye. One official admits as much. By Scott Carney.
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People should be paid for living organ donations, argues a US surgeon in a leading medical journal.
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AMSTERDAM Anger toward the Netherlands&#39; Muslim community percolated among the crowd that gathered outside the funeral for the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by an Islamic extremist a week ago.
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Three patients at hospitals in Tuscany were mistakenly given organs from an HIV-positive donor, raising serious concerns about transplant procedures in Italy.
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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Doctors in The Netherlands are calling for a domestic legal framework that would allow them to end the lives of new-born babies suffering unbearable pain from incurable diseases, a move that reopens the debate ...
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Concern that religious tensions along the lines of those sparked in the Netherlands by the brutal killing of Islam-critical filmmaker Theo van Gogh could spill over into Germany has triggered a fresh debate ...
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Some blood donors are threatening to stop donating their blood after the South African National Blood Services (SANBS) revealed its policy of racially profiling donors.
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What if governments and insurance companies nip the incentive for the dangerous illegal organ trade by paying donors with free healthcare or cash? Plus: Indian Organ Mafia Busted In Bodyhack.
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The murder of controversial moviemaker Theo van Gogh has triggered a series of anti-Muslim attacks in the Netherlands, according Dutch media.
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The funeral of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered last week by a Muslim, led to religious violence on Tuesday. Two Dutch churches were attacked by arsonists, apparently in retaliation for earlier attacks on mosques.