Organ Donors Behind Bars

The New York Times | April 25 2013| [read the article]

NY Times — Utah recently became the first state to explicitly permit general prisoners – not death-row inmates – to donate their organs if they die while incarcerated.

5 Are Convicted in Kosovo Organ Trafficking

The New York Times | April 29 2013| [read the article]

NY Times — Five people were convicted Monday in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, in connection with an elaborate organ-trafficking network

Altruistic organ donations rise in UK almost three-fold

BBC News  | May 15 2013| [read the article]

BBS News — The number of living people giving one of their organs to a stranger almost tripled last year in the UK, according to new figures.

Transplant journal retracts three papers over possible organ trafficking

Retraction Watch | March 2013| [read the article]

NEWS — The journal Experimental and Clinical Transplantation has retracted three papers by a group of Lebanese researchers who appear to have been engaging in illicit trafficking of human kidneys.