A contact lens solution manufacturer voluntarily withdrew one of its products Saturday after federal health officials said an investigation had linked it to the rare but potentially blinding eye infection Acanthamoeba keratitis, the New York Times reports. Customers were advised to immediately stop using the solution, AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution. They also were [Sign in to read the full article...]
Five South African physicians are facing charges of alleged involvement in a scam that saw Brazilians being paid paltry sums for their kidneys, which were transplanted into mainly Israeli clients, the Hindustan Times reports. One of the doctors, Ariff Haffajee, is the deputy head of surgery at the Nelson Mandela Medical School and has won [Sign in to read the full article...]
In another international crackdown, Pakistani authorities arrested nine people — four of them doctors — for abducting people, drugging them and removing their kidneys for transplant operations, the Associated Press reports. Selling kidneys from consenting donors is not illegal in Pakistan, which has a reputation as the world’s “kidney bazaar.” “These poor people were given [Sign in to read the full article...]
A Seattle judge last week dismissed a lawsuit over the use of organ donor body parts for research and purposes other than transplantation, the Associated Press reports. As a result, officials say they plan to revise the state’s consent procedure. King County Superior Court Judge Joan E. DuBuque rejected a case brought by Nancy Adams [Sign in to read the full article...]
A Dutch reality television show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors plans to go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys, the Associated Press reports. The program, “Big Donor Show,” has been attacked as [Sign in to read the full article...]