Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other human-rights activists claim that Chinese authorities simply confiscate whatever body parts they need after an execution, rarely asking the condemned prisoners or their families for permission beforehand. Doctors at military hospitals then reportedly transplant the organs into wealthy foreigners willing to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 for the operation. Some activists fear that Chinese officials may have broadened the kinds of crimes punishable by death in order to line their own pockets. "We estimate there are about 6,000 prisoners executed in China each year," says William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, U.S.A...
...agent after he got a tip that Wang had approached a dialysis center in New York City with an offer to provide its clients with human kidneys at a steep discount. Wang reportedly told doctors that he could, for a 25% fee, arrange for patients to receive a kidney transplant in China without what is often a two-year wait. Rather than go along with the deal, however, the physicians put Wang in touch with Wu, who rigged up a camcorder and posed as the center's director...
...illegal in the U.S. to buy or sell human organs, there may still be reason for concern. Take, for example, a new "Life for a Life" bill introduced last month in the Missouri state legislature. It would allow prisoners on death row to exchange a kidney or bone-marrow transplant for a sentence of life without parole. Although doctors have attacked the bill on moral grounds, arguing that a choice between death or transplantation is never free, defense attorneys have called it "fascinating." Strictly speaking, of course, the prisoners wouldn't be selling their organs. But they would be buying...
...elderly man develops macular degeneration, a disease that destroys vision. To bolster his failing eyesight, he receives a transplant of healthy retinal tissue--cloned from his own cells and cultivated in a lab dish...
...advanced stage of leukemia and the fact that his donor was not a complete match, having one different antigen, lowered the odds of Kuo's recovery. After Kuo's transplant operation on Dec. 10, Kuo had a brush with death. Near Christmas, his liver and kidney functions went almost fatally askew...