Nigerian senator and family on trial in UK over organ harvesting plot
A wealthy Nigerian politician and his family plotted to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Britain and pay him a few thousand pounds to donate his kidney for a transplant for his ill daughter, reports say.
First pig heart transplant patient dies after 2 months
The hospital that carried out the surgery says they had experienced difficulty 'maintaining a balance between his immunosuppression and controlling his infection'.
US man recovering after ‘breakthrough’ pig-heart transplant
About 110,000 Americans are currently waiting for an organ transplant, and more than 6,000 patients die each year before getting one, according to organdonor.gov.
