ABOUT ORGAN TRAFFICKING

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Q&A: Lab organs

US scientists have successfully grown fully functioning bladders in the lab, and implanted them into patients with bladder disease. Tuesday, 4 April 2006

Organ Trafficking – By Country

• Poor Sell Organs to Trans-Atlantic Trafficking Ring, by Mario Osava , IPS News, May 2, 2006

• Report to Affirm Organ Harvesting Claims in China, by Cindy Chan, The Epoch Times, 6 July 2006

• Sujiatun Death Camp: Putting Conscience on Trial, by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group.

• China 'selling prisoners' organs', by Jill McGivering, BBC News, 19 April 2006

• China bans transplant organ sales - 28 March 2006

• EGYPT: Poverty pushes poor Egyptians to sell their organs, IRIN News, 30 May, 2006

• Egypt 's illegal organs trade thrives on poverty, The Daily Star, 5 April, 2006

• Organ trafficking rife in Egypt, SA,  4 April, 2006 

• India Kidney Trade. TED Case Studies

• Police uncover large scale organ trafficking in Punjab, BMJ 2003;326:180, 25 January, 2003

• A newly published study underlines the fact that selling a kidney hardly benefits the seller, by Ashwini R. Sehgal   Frontline  19(22),  26 Oct 26- 8 Nov 8, 2002

• International Organ-Trafficking Syndicate Exposed, by Jeff Hook  2005-08-22 

• Organ trafficking: scope and ethical dilemma., by Mor E, Boas, 21 July 2005

• Organ Trafficking, by Scott Feiner, 23 May, 2004

• This Little Kidney Went to Market, by Michael Finkel, 27 May, 2001, Sunday

• Japanese Organ Transplant Agency: Chinese Organ Supplies Will Not Decrease, by Gao Ling and Wu Ming, Epoch Times, 28 April, 2006

• Kidney sales expose plight of Pakistani poor, by Imtiaz Gul, AlJazeera, 22 October, 2003

• The rise and fall of the South African organ-trafficking ring, Christian Science Monitor, June 09, 2004

• Bolster trust, chase greed away from death's door, by Caplan and McGee, Times Union, 15 Sunday, January, 2006

• Illegal Harvesting and Sale of Body Parts, Tissue, and Organs – Dr. Frankenstein Would Have Been Proud, by Steven DiJoseph, 8 April, 2006 

• Black market in transplant organs, by B. Kates, 25 August, 2002.