Philippines' kidney register to fight trafficking

1. Bone Marrow - "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the majority of bone-marrow donors may lawfully be compensated. In a unanimous ruling, the court rejected the position of the U.S.

From ABC Good Morning America: 

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Millions of people suffer from kidney disease, but in 2007 there were just 64,606 kidney-transplant operations in the entire world. Today in the WSJ I discuss innovative solutions to the worldwide shortage of transplant organs from places like  Iran, India, Singapore, Israel and elsewhere.  One interesting bit I haven't blogged about before is routine removal of organs without the donor's or their families consent.

The federal government outlawed the sale of human organs in 1984, and until a recent legal challenge that even included a ban against receiving compensation for bone marrow.  For organs like kidneys, an altruistic donation, sometimes from a complete stranger, is the only legal method of kidney exchange, and any form of compensation if illegal.

The chart above illustrates a very serious and escalating health care crisis in America:  The number of kidney transplan