Please note: This event has been canceled. At this event, Sally Satel, M.D., will discuss her new book, When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors and the national organ shortage.

In October of 2009, Kumud Majumder, the father of an 11-year-old son with advanced leukemia, joined a lawsuit challenging the federal ban on compensating bone-marrow donors. He wanted to save his son's life. Last week Mr. Majumder and his co-plaintiffs enjoyed a victory. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the majority of bone-marrow donors may lawfully be compensated.

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...

Meaningful rewards for living donations could provide the answer to the kidney shortage.

Did Steve Jobs' wealth buy him a faster liver transplant? It certainly helped--and the Apple CEO's odyssey showcases some of the problems with organ donations in America.

What should we make of Arizona's new law for rationing organ transplants?

In the face of a global organ shortage, countries are cracking down on "transplant tourism"--travel by patients to procure organs overseas.