(Natural News) An Ohio hospital transplanted a kidney into the wrong person, leaving the intended recipient waiting for a replacement. Officials at University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland on Monday, July 12, apologized for the mistake and said two employees had been placed on administrative leave pending the results of investigation. “We have offered our sincerest apologies […]

(Natural News) Human rights experts affiliated with the United Nations expressed shock and dismay after credible allegations of the Chinese government’s involvement in forced organ harvesting targeting religious and ethnic minorities emerged. The experts included special rapporteurs to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and members of a working group on arbitrary […]

(Natural News) The Canadian newspaper Ottawa Citizen is celebrating the legalization of assisted suicide in Canada because now there are a whole lot more organs and tissues available for desperate patients. Because Ontario’s transplant waiting list is usually around 1,600 patients at any given time, according to the paper, this abundance of new organs and tissues is decreasing […]

(Natural News) Organ transplants are considered one of the greatest advances of modern medicine. It’s incredible to think that an organ that is no longer needed by one person can be placed into someone else’s body and give them a new lease on life. Of course, it’s also one of the riskiest medical procedures – […]

(Natural News) If you’ve ever toyed with – or perhaps already committed to – the idea of donating your body to medical science when you die, a shocking story out of Detroit might have you thinking again. Arthur Rathburn, 64, was recently sentenced to nine years in federal prison and fined $761,000, for selling and […]

(Natural News) The world is changing so swiftly that things that might have seemed like science fiction just a decade or two ago are now becoming the norm. For some time now, scientists around the world have been working on developing animal-human hybrids – or chimeras – for the mass production of human organs to […]

(Natural News) A controversial startup company is looking to harvest fresh human brains. The company is called Nectome and the founders are already preying upon the suicidal, the terminally ill and those who are willing to sacrifice their lives for “science.” The company claims they can preserve your brain so it can be uploaded to the […]

(Natural News) The body parts trade is real, and it’s not just legitimate medical researchers who are engaging in the practice. According to a recent Reuters expose, some U.S. body brokers have been caught defrauding customers by selling body parts infected with communicable diseases. American body brokers have supplied body parts to at least 45 […]

(Natural News) Doctors and surgeons have managed to save a man’s life in England after giving him a transplant using a “dead” heart they were able to bring back to life. Using a revolutionary new piece of technology that’s been called a “heart in a box,” the device can keep the organ preserved and actually […]

(Natural News) New investigation has revealed that bodies donated for medical purposes don’t always make their way to the right facilities – many end up in warehouses to be incinerated or dismembered using course-cutting instruments like a chainsaw. According to a report by the DailyMail, thousands of Americans donate their bodies to “biomedical advancement” hoping […]