We should offer well-informed individuals a reward if they are willing to save a stranger's life.

This year, more than 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a potentially deadly blood disease. Among those in need of lifesaving, blood-producing marrow cells, thousands will die because it is so difficult to find a nearly perfect genetic match and marrow donors are in short supply.

Material incentives, from tax credits...

Divorce settlements have always cost an arm and a leg, but as the shocking Batista case demonstrates, vital organs are now fair game. Can altruism ever be regulated?

The National Kidney Foundation's recalcitrance on financial incentives for organ donors is hurting the very constituency it purports to serve.

The nation"s system for procuring and distributing vital organs for transplant remains deeply troubled, with demand vastly outstripping supply.

Reducing end-of-life costs will do little to curb the growth in Medicare spending overall. But end-of-life care provision should be reformed to match the values of patients.

Many of the quandaries that plague transplant medicine flow from the need to ration scarce resources.

An exceptional friendship provides a remarkable window into the state of organ donations in this country.