The changes are called Max and Keira’s Law, after a boy who received a heart transplant from a girl who was fatally injured in a car accident. It turns on its head the previous system, under which a person had to “opt in”, i.e. to give consent to donate their organs. The UK House of Commons has approved the bill that will introduce a “presumed consent” policy in organ... 

According to Israeli press, police arrested six men in northern Israel Tuesday, in a crack-down on illegal human organ trafficking. Police had launched an investigation after receiving a number of complaints from people who had responded to a newspaper ad saying respondents would be paid $100,000 for a kidney. The respondents participated, giving up a kidney in surgery completed out of Israel,...