Compensation for kidneys would help the poor

Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

A government program that would provide market-value, noncash compensation to living kidney donors would benefit low-income people and not be exploitative, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford Medicine and other institutions. Such a program could also end the national shortage of kidneys for transplantation. Each year, about 9,000 people are removed from the kidney transplant waiting […]

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