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Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
Zell Kravinsky is an American investor and utilitarian who is known for making a non-directed kidney donation to a stranger and for donating over $45 million of his personal wealth to charity, with the largest individual donation going to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [1] He is also a poet.
The overall risk of death for a kidney donor has always been low, but advances in surgery and medical care, along with more careful donor selection, have improved the odds even more.
With few options, the Flood sisters used Craigslist to secure a kidney donor for their ailing father in 2008. Since then, the women have made it their mission to save others.
Remote donation utilizes proven logistics systems pioneered in kidney swaps by the National Kidney Registry over the past decade to safely transport the kidney from the donor's local hospital to the transplant center in the distant city. Research has proven that shipping a live kidney for transplant has no significant impact on patient outcomes.
When Karol Franks' 29-year-old daughter, Jenna, was diagnosed with kidney failure, the family tried everything to find a donor. After years on the donor waiting list, the family still had.