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Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
The growth of a commercial organ trade is linked to economic reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw a steep decline in government funding to the healthcare system. Healthcare moved toward a more market-driven model, and hospitals devised new ways to grow their revenue.
There is no starker example of the free hand of the market than organ transplantation. It's the ultimate "seller's" market: For instance, the number of kidney transplants performed in the U.S ...
Organ theft is the act of taking a person's organs for transplantation or sale on the black market, without their explicit consent through means of being an organ donor or other forms of consent. Most cases of organ theft involve coercion, occurrences in wartime, or thefts within hospital settings. [ 1 ]
A year-long investigation has revealed desperate people in Myanmar, hawking their organs to wealthy people on social media.
Opt-out means marketers start with the assumption that you want their crap product unless you specifically tell them you don't. Now a British researcher has proposed making organ donation opt-out ...
There is a shortage of organs available for donation with many patients waiting on the transplant list for a donation match. About 20 patients die each day waiting for an organ on the transplant list. [43] When an organ donor does arise, the transplant governing bodies must determine who receives the organ.
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