Roughly 10% of all organ transplants in the world are obtained on the black market. A new investigation by puts a brutal face on that underground world.

Governments must provide in-kind incentives in order to spur organ donations, as altruism cannot be the sole legitimate motive for donating, and to achieve the true end of saving more lives.

Israel should be commended for its two-pronged approach to its organ problem: incentives and efforts to combat trafficking.

It is time for a state to challenge the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act and offer funeral benefits or some other reward to the estate of those who will give their organs at death.

Altruism is beautiful, but it is not powerful enough to save everyone who needs a kidney.

If we really want to increase the supply of organs, we need to try incentives--financial and otherwise.

A personal story of heroic altruism (and the painful limits of altruism).

If we had a high speed computing system and we had an ability to have very high speed access, I think we could design a system where we would have found those two people, they would have been stopped at Logan and we would have had a very significant understanding of what was going on.