organ transplants

Doctors sew a kidney into a recipient patient during a kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2012 in Baltimore, Md.

Health & Safety

HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Set To Begin At Johns Hopkins

11:28am February 21, 2016

by NPR Staff

Doctors say organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients will save lives and shorten wait times for everyone. NPR spoke with one doctor who helped end the 25-year ban.

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An economist has ideas for making the market for organ donations more efficient.

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Economy
Health & Safety

How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

2:18pm June 12, 2015

by Nancy Shute

If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

Relatives of deceased organ donors mourn for them at a ceremony unveiling a monument for the organ donors in April in Chongqing, China.

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Health & Safety

China To End Organ Harvesting From Executed Inmates

11:43am December 04, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The controversial practice has long been criticized by human rights campaigners who say that it could hasten the pace that prisoners are put to death in China.