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Mexico adopts "presumed consent" law.
Thai "Organ Trade scandal" coverage from The Bangkok Post.
Body Bazaar: In the poorest countries of the world, kidneys mean cash, BY ETELKA LEHOCZKY [10.15.99]
ORGAN TRANSPLANTS: KIDNEY DISPARITY FOR MEDI-CAL BENEFICIARIES (Sacramento Bee/AP, 10/03/99)
Secret Dissection Class Held in UCI Laboratory [fee to view] Thursday, September 23, 1999 KATE FOLMAR and PETER M. WARREN, LA Times. At least one cadaver was dissected in private, clandestine anatomy courses in the UC Irvine laboratory that is now at the center of an unfolding scandal over bodies donated for science, campus officials said Wednesday...
Kidney Appears For Sale on eBay September 3, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO (AP)--The bidding for a human kidney offered on the Internet auction site eBay hit $5.7 million before the company put a stop to it Thursday. Spokesman Kevin Pursglove said eBay stopped the auction because the seller broke eBay's rules outlawing the sale of body parts. Selling your own organs is also illegal under federal law, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or a $50,000 fine. More>>
Friday Why Give Organs Away? [feeto view] To the Editor: Re ''Pennsylvania Set to Break Taboo on Money for Organs'' (front page, May 6): It is not unreasonable to fear that paying a stipend to organ donors' families could be the first step in an open market for human organs. But to ask wheth ... Editorial Desk 152 words May 7, 1999 (NYT)
Pennsylvania Set to Break Taboo On Reward for Organ Donations [fee to view] With demand for human organs far outstripping supply and more than 64,000 Americans waiting to receive new hearts, lungs, livers, pancreases and kidneys, Pennsylvania is taking steps to become the first state to break a long-held taboo against provid ... National Desk 1454 words By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG May 6, 1999 (NYT)
Lab-grown
bladder encourages scientists Worldwide, 400 million suffer from bladder
disease
January 30, 1999 Web posted at: 3:18 a.m. EST (0818 GMT)
HEALTH: Israeli Link In Estonian 'Human Kidneys For Sale' Scam By Andrei Ivanov MOSCOW, Feb 20 (IPS) - The commercial trade in human body parts is no longer confined to the poorer developing countries, it seems -- Eastern and Central Europe is now becoming a source of cheap human kidneys and other organs for the booming transplant industry. More>>