Organ Transplants
JOHANNESBURG - A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ trafficking case that stretched from Israel to South Africa to Brazil, hospital officials and police said Thursday.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A New York man who received a liver transplant in January has pleaded guilty to driving drunk when he hit a pedestrian less than three months later.
UTICA, N.Y. - A former psychiatrist accused of duping seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines has been sentenced in New York to more than 15 years in prison.
NEW YORK - The scenario was unique, as far as doctors could tell: A man had gotten a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and didn't know it.
WASHINGTON - With a few drops of blood, scientists are creating a way to tell who's absorbed dangerous radiation levels, part of the government's preparations against a terrorist attack - and research that just might point toward new cancer care, too.
