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

The imperative to innovate and experiment is great because altruism alone cannot solve the problems of the organ donation system.

Eleven Americans die each day because they cannot get a kidney transplant. The best way to provide more kidneys is tocompensate donors.

Is there any reason to be afraid of trade with poor countries?

A bad incentive structure creates a dire shortage.

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

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?

In its first half-year in office, the Bush administration has pulled away from, or indicated it would pull away from, more than half a dozen treaties and international agreements. The list ranges from the effort to stop global warming to key provisions of a ban on small arms sales to how to stop biological weapons.