[People's Daily] When Xiao Luo arrived in south China’s Guangzhou city in May last year, the 30-year-old was struggling to raise her 6-year-old son alone in Hunan Province. Her husband never showed up soon after a business failure. “I was devastated that my husband abandoned us just like that, leaving dunners knocking on the door [...]

The seamy underside of the organ transplant business made the news recently when Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman, was arrested on accusations of trying to broker the purchase of a kidney for $160,000.
That the organ shortage is so great in this country that people are resorting to buying and selling kidneys is not a surprise; [...]

[NYT] LONDON — The controversy over the ethical and legal issues surrounding assisted suicide for the terminally ill was thrown into stark relief on Tuesday with the announcement that one of Britain’s most distinguished orchestra conductors, Sir Edward Downes, had flown to Switzerland last week with his wife and joined her in drinking a lethal cocktail of [...]

[NYT] JUNE 30, 2009 – Need a kidney? You may be able to buy one in Pakistan, which has become one of the world’s largest “kidney bazaars,” according to an article published in the May-June issue of The Hastings Center Report, a bioethics journal.
But who sells their kidneys, and what becomes of these people afterwards? The article, [...]

Following up with my last post on medical tourism, virtual medical tourism is also on the rise.  An increasing number of Americans are not only flying overseas in search of cheaper medical care, but they are medical globe-trotting via the internet. 
The October 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter reports that many countries are marketing their more competitively priced medical treatments to [...]