China Organ Transplant Scandal, 65% Come from Death Row Inmates

China has an organ transplant scandal on its hands. It seems that in 65% of all organ transplants performed in China death row inmates have been the donors. With 65% of all organ donor being death row inmates it is...

Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?

" An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of...

Donor Kidney Removed through Vagina allows Donor Release Same Day

"In what is being heralded as a "first-ever procedure," surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center has announced." It is true that this procedure has been...

Can we really transplant a human soul?

" Written by Danny Penman    The progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures. So it has proved with heart transplants, which have...

Windpipe transplant breakthrough - Stem Cell Therepy to treat serious diseases

In a breakthrough scientists in Spain have used adult stem cells from the recepient of an organ transplant to trick the body into accepting the donated organ without the use of anti-rejection drugs. Under normal surgical procedured involving organ transplantation involving a...

Organ donor change shelved

Gordon Brown has shelved plans to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation in the UK despite announcing earlier that he was in favour of trying out the scheme. He has however kept the door open to revisit the...

The dutch back automatic organ donation

Some 75% of the population support a system in which everyone is automatically an organ donor unless they actively register their objection, according to a survey by TNS Nipo, reports Saturday’s Volkskrant. The...

Attack of the caterpillars!

"A couple days ago we drove with Mike to a jobsite to check on the progress. He called me out of the van to look at a clump of caterpillars hanging from a bush. As we looked around, we noticed that they were...

Scientists uncover gene signature behind cancer spread

"Washington, May 31 (ANI): U.S. researchers have identified a gene signature responsible for the spread of cancer from one organ to another, a process scientifically known as metastasis. Research collaborators from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia and...

Chickens and T. rex are Relatives?

Which came first – the chicken or the egg?  How about T.rex!  Scientists are now saying chickens have descended from the colossal meat-eating dinosaur."Scientists are fleshing out the proof that...

Bodysnatcher Admits Guilt

The international black market for illegal organs and transplants is a frightening, disturbing, and almost sci-fi-esque aspect of our contemporary world, especially when the bodysnatching extends to celebrity...

Fairground Barrel Organ at Clumber Steam Rally July 2007

These jolly barrel organs really add to the atmosphere of a steam rally - and there were about 5 blasting away at Clumber!  Although it's not too clear the figures move slightly too!

Polonium-210 one of world's rarest elements

"LONDON, England (AP) -- Polonium-210 -- the radioactive substance used to poison a former Russian spy in London -- is one of the world's rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.  It is highly lethal when ingested, and...

And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don't mind the size

Remember John Prine’s Please Don’t bury Me? “ Venus De Milo can have my arms, look out, I’ve got your nose Sell my heart to the junkman and give my love to Rose.”  Maybe I’ve just got a twisted sense of humor, but that’s what I thought about when I read...

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