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    Kidney transplant racket at top Delhi hospital in India...

    Kidney racket at top Delhi hospital
    Sat, 04 Jun 2016 - Indian police say they have uncovered an illegal trade in human kidneys in one of the leading private hospitals in the capital, Delhi.
    They say five people have been arrested so far, including two employees of the Apollo Hospital. They are suspected of luring poor people to sell their kidneys for up to $7,500 (£5,170) before re-selling the organs for huge profits.


    Stitches of man who sold his kidney

    The hospital says it has been a victim and doctors were misled. It is believed that the suspected gang members forged papers to dupe doctors into operating on the needy people in the belief that they were donating the kidneys to their relatives.

    The Apollo Hospital has said it is a matter of "grave concern", adding that it is fully co-operating with the police. "The hospital has been a victim of a well-orchestrated operation to cheat patients and the hospital," an Apollo spokesman said. "We urge the police to take the strictest of action against all those involved," the spokesman added. A chronic shortage of transplant organs is fuelling a lucrative black market trade in body parts across India.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-36452439

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    Human transplant organs grown in pigs...

    Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs
    Sun, 05 Jun 2016 - US scientists try to grow human organs inside pigs to solve the transplant shortage by injecting human stem cells into pig embryos.
    They have injected human stem cells into pig embryos to produce human-pig embryos known as chimeras. The embryos are part of research aimed at overcoming the worldwide shortage of transplant organs. The team from University of California, Davis says they should look and behave like normal pigs except that one organ will be composed of human cells. The human-pig chimeric embryos are being allowed to develop in the sows for 28 days before the pregnancies are terminated and the tissue removed for analysis. The BBC's Panorama was given exclusive access to the research for Medicine's Big Breakthrough: Editing Your Genes.

    Creating a chimera

    Creating the chimeric embryos takes two stages. First, a technique known as CRISPR gene editing is used to remove DNA from a newly fertilised pig embryo that would enable the resulting foetus to grow a pancreas. This creates a genetic "niche" or void. Then, human induced pluripotent (iPS) stem cells are injected into the embryo. The iPS cells were derived from adult cells and "dialled back" to become stem cells capable of developing into any tissue in the body. The team at UC Davis hopes the human stem cells will take advantage of the genetic niche in the pig embryo and the resulting foetus will grow a human pancreas.


    Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.

    Pablo Ross, a reproductive biologist who is leading the research told me: "Our hope is that this pig embryo will develop normally but the pancreas will be made almost exclusively out of human cells and could be compatible with a patient for transplantation." But the work is controversial. Last year, the main US medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health, imposed a moratorium on funding such experiments. The main concern is that the human cells might migrate to the developing pig's brain and make it, in some way, more human. Pablo Ross says this is unlikely but is a key reason why the research is proceeding with such caution: "We think there is very low potential for a human brain to grow, but this is something we will be investigating."

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    "Is you a man or is you a mouse", he asked the mouse-man...

    US Bishops Urge NIH Not to Fund Human Animal ‘Chimera’ Research
    September 6, 2016 – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has strongly objected to a federal government proposal to lift a funding moratorium in two areas of research into human-animal “chimeras.”
    “The government is ignoring the fact that federally funded research of this kind is prohibited by Federal statute and is also grossly unethical,” the body said in its objection Friday. Last month the Office of Science Policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted an announcement seeking public comment on a plan to provide funding for research:

    -- in which “human pluripotent cells are introduced into non-human vertebrate embryos, up through the end of gastrulation stage, with the exception of non-human primates, which would only be considered after the blastocyst stage,” and

    -- in which “human cells are introduced into post-gastrulation non-human mammals (excluding rodents), where there could be either a substantial contribution or a substantial functional modification to the animal brain by the human cells.”

    Anthony Picarello, USCCB associate general secretary and general counsel, and Michael Moses, associate general counsel, submitted a letter outlining moral and legal objections to the NIH’s proposal. “The bottom line is that the Federal government will begin expending taxpayer dollars on the creation and manipulation of new beings whose very existence blurs the line between humanity and animals such as mice and rats,” they wrote. “In doing so, the government is ignoring the fact that federally funded research of this kind is prohibited by Federal statute and is also grossly unethical.”

    The letter argued that the government had already crossed a “significant moral line” by allowing embryonic stem cell research, but added that the latest proposal violated another principle. “The government now proposes running roughshod over another basic moral principle, however, by injecting human embryonic stem cells into the embryos of various animal species to create beings who do not fully belong to either the human race or the host animal species.” The research “raises grave moral as well as legal issues,” they wrote. “With a stroke of the pen, the ‘mouse with a human brain’ that some researchers have proposed – prompting widespread public controversy and the introduction of federal legislation to prohibit such abuses – will be a matter of routine federal policy.”

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    Rare but doable now that Hep C can be managed... Bid to Speed Transplants With Hepatitis C-Infected Kidneys October 27, 2016 | WASHINGTON — Some patients facing a years-long wait for a kidney transplant are jumping ahead in line thanks to a startling experiment: They're agreeing to an organ almost sure to infect them with hepatitis C.
    Knowingly transmitting a dangerous virus may sound drastic but two leading transplant centers are betting the strategy will save lives — if new medications that promise to cure hepatitis C allow use of organs that today go to waste. Pilot studies are under way at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University to test transplanting kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C into recipients who don't already have that virus. If the research eventually pans out, hundreds more kidneys — and maybe some hearts and lungs, too — could be transplanted every year. "We always dreaded hepatitis C," said Dr. Peter Reese, a Penn kidney specialist who is helping lead the research. "But now hepatitis C is just a different disease," enough to consider what he calls the tradeoff of getting a new kidney years faster but one that comes with a hopefully treatable infection. It's a tradeoff prompted by the nation's organ shortage. More than 99,000 people are on the national kidney waiting list but only about 17,000 people a year get a transplant and 4 percent a year die waiting, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). "If we had enough organs, we wouldn't do this," said Dr. Niraj Desai, who is leading the Hopkins study. But, "most patients are pretty open to the idea once they hear what the alternatives are." Doctors had told Irma Hendricks, 66, to expect at least a five-year wait for a kidney transplant. Dialysis three times a week was keeping the East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, woman alive but left her with no energy for even routine activities. "I call it the zombie syndrome," she said.
    HealthBeat Kidney Transplants Hepatitis C: Irma Hendricks has blood drawn at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, on Oct. 6, 2016. Hendricks received a kidney transplant from a donor with hepatitis C, and took medications after surgery that cleared away the virus and left her feeling healthy again. Hendricks is part of a pilot study testing if new drugs that promise to cure most hepatitis C could allow use of organs that today go to waste, and speed transplants to people who might otherwise die waiting.
    So she jumped at the chance to enroll in Penn's study, even though doctors made clear they hoped for but couldn't guarantee a hepatitis cure. "My son said, 'Mom, this is a no-brainer. Just do it,'" Hendricks said, She swallowed an anti-hepatitis pill daily for three months, in addition to the usual post-transplant medications. Testing showed the drugs rapidly cleared hepatitis C out of her bloodstream. And with her new kidney functioning well, she now has enough energy to play with her toddler grandson. "This is giving people in my situation new hope," Hendricks said. Kidney transplant specialists are closely watching the research. "It makes sense to me," said Dr. Matthew Cooper, a transplant surgeon at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, who is not involved in the research. He cautioned that the studies should use only kidneys that are young and otherwise high-quality, and that patients must understand the risks. "They need to know you place their safety as the highest priority," Cooper said. "But at the same time, recognize that we have these obstacles. We don't want people to die on dialysis and there are not enough organs available for everybody." MORE

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    China crackin' down on black market organ harvesting...

    China court jails 16 for black market kidney trading
    Sat, 31 Dec 2016 - A Chinese court jails 16 people for involvement in illegal kidney transplants, state media report.
    Sixteen people in China have been jailed for up to five years each for involvement in illegal kidney transplants, state media report. A local court said the defendants - mainly health professionals - had used the internet to match buyers and sellers, Xinhua news agency said. Among them were two doctors, a nurse and an anaesthetist who the court said carried out secret transplant surgery. A shortage of donors has led to a booming black market for organs.


    The Lixia district court in Jinan city in China's Shandong province said patients were asked to pay at least $57,000 (400,000 yuan). For many years, China harvested the organs of executed prisoners to help meet demand. But following international condemnation, Beijing says it ended the practice at the start of 2015. The government has had some success in registering new legal donors, but there are still many people waiting for transplants.

    The country's donor rates are among the lowest in the world - 0.6 donations per million people compared with 37 per million in Spain. Many Chinese believe the body is sacred and should be buried intact in a show of respect to their ancestors. Trading in human organs has been banned in China since 2007.

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    Organ trafficking ring busted in Pakistan...

    Pakistani police rescue 24 from organ trafficking gang
    Tue, 24 Jan 2017 - Alert raised after patients from UK, Canada and Australia develop complications following kidney transplants.
    "We will remove your kidney, and you will receive 300,000 rupees [£2,300]." Sadi Ahmed was held hostage for three months by an organ trafficking gang. In October last year, he was one of 24 people rescued by police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. They had been imprisoned in a building in an affluent suburb, awaiting the forced removal of their kidneys. Three people are due in court later this month. They deny all involvement in illegal transplants and trafficking.

    Police say victims were lured to Rawalpindi in the hope of getting jobs. They even were tricked into going to court, under the pretence of getting them documentation to work. In fact, the gang was creating a paper trail to provide a cover story. Their victims were held captive, for months in some cases. Mr Ahmed told the BBC's File on 4 programme that he was taken to a commercial building, had his phone taken from him, and soon realised there was no job. "There were 20 to 25 other persons sitting. I was told to shut up and be quiet and sit there. "About 10 minutes later, the agent arrived and said get ready as I was going in for a test. "I asked, 'What type of a test are you taking me for? What type of work are you offering?'."


    The Kidney Centre Hospital in Rawalpindi

    The traffickers wanted to test his kidney, and told him he would be given the equivalent of £2,300 for the organ. Mr Ahmed says he was "beaten up, not allowed to go out, we were padlocked in". "We were threatened that the police would beat us up and we would be killed." When police raided the building, Mr Ahmed was saved just in time. He was due to have his kidney removed at a nearby hospital, called the Kidney Centre, a few hours later. Though happy to be free, while he was held captive his wife and four children struggled to survive without him, and built up debts. He said: "I had my own property, it was taken away due to the debts. We are penniless now. We have lost our home."

    Police officer Yasir Mehmood says the victims were "very weak and very sad" when he and his colleagues found them, locked behind a grille. Dr Mirza Naqi Zafar, general secretary of the Pakistan Transplantation Society, says despite a ban on commercial transplants in 2010, there has been a resurgence in the illegal trade in recent years, with as many as 100 illegal transplants happening every month.

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