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By Funke Busari Over time, most young Nigerians with promising careers have fallen victims of human traffickers. Many a time, it has taken the intervention of government agencies to rescue survivors from the jaws of death and life of regret. But many have not been so fortunate. Not a few have died from every form…
The business of selling human organs, extracted from live and illegally detained prisoners by the Chinese government is going on unchecked, Voices Against Autocracy reported. Medical practitioners around the world, governments, and universal bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO) must work to put an end to this “inhuman and disgusting practice.” Experts in an…
Beijing [China], December 29 (ANI): The inclusion of modern medicine tools like DNA profiling and iris scanning at mass levels in China has given rise to fears of China using these tools to further promote the country’s inhuman international business of forcibly harvested human organs, according to a report in Tibet Press. The report says…
Warning: This story contains graphic details that may be disturbing. A Mexican woman flew 3,000 miles for love, but instead ended up a victim of human organ trafficking, local authorities say. Blanca Arellano travelled to Peru in July after a whirlwind online courtship with a Peruvian medical student identified by both her family and prosecutors…
51-year-old Mexican woman Blanca Arellano was murdered in Huacho, Peru after traveling for love. Arellano met 37-year-old Peruvian medical student Juan Pablo Jesús Villafuerte on a gaming app during the pandemic. After speaking online, the woman traveled on July 27 to the beach city of Huacho to meet Villafuerte in person. However, everything took a…
New Delhi: Vijay Deverakonda has pledged to donate his organs and said he has already registered for the same along with his mother, Madhavi. The “Liger” actor attended an event to encourage organ donation where he spoke about the nobility of the act. “Doctors tell me that a lot of surgeries happen only because of…
Editor’s note: this article contains great information about transplants and a good general overview of the transplant process. Globally, about 20 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. There are several organs and tissues that one can donate including kidneys, heart, blood, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, thymus, bone marrow, bones, tendon, ligaments, corneas,…
Over the course of history, especially in the 19th and 20th century, the pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science were uncovered was accelerating, as was the speed at which medical practice being transformed by these very inventions. Since then, we have come a long way from Hooke’s observation of a cell to advanced…
Recently, there have been uproars on and off social media about Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president and his wife, Beatrice, who were arrested by the United Kingdom Police over alleged child trafficking and conspiracy to harvest an organ of a child. Organ trafficking sometimes known as transplant tourism describes the commercialism that drives the…
Between March 2005 and September 2006 Annie Yang was tortured for up to 20 hours a day in a labour camp outside Beijing for her devotion to Falun Gong spiritualism. The abuse was relentless. But every few weeks something strange would happen. She and her fellow captives would be herded onto a prison bus with…
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