The number of people who are in need of new kidneys in the United States is growing, but so is the waiting list for new organs. About 7 percent of the entire Medicare budget is spent on dialysis ...

Federal law bans payments for organs. But about 60 percent of Americans support health care credits as compensation for organ donors, the... Poll: Americans Show Support For Compensation Of Organ ...

My AEI colleague Sally Satel makes the case above for making it legal for organ donors to receive compensation and argues in favor of the motion “We should legalize the market for human organs” at an ...

The July 9 editorial "The Wait for Transplants" noted our nation's long waiting lists for donated organs and argued that a "responsible society" should favor donation from cadavers, as opposed to live ...

Increasing living kidney donations would help CKD patients and taxpayers. Could lifting restrictions on organ sales help ease the burden of America’s current fiscal crisis? Surprisingly, allowing ...

HERNDON, Va. — It’s ethical to pay families who donate a loved one’s organs, as long as the money isn’t enough to constitute a bribe, a newly created organ transplant advisory committee was told ...

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, ...

New study reveals that fewer New Yorkers are enrolled in organ donation programs when compared to the national average. The study conducted by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield reveals that 22 percent of ...

The shortage of organs for transplant continues to grow, despite years of work to get more donors on board. Facebook jumped in this month by making organ-donation status something you could add to ...