Australia: New National Transplant Authority
(Sept. 29, 2008) The Australian government has proposed new legislation, the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Bill 2008, to establish an independent Organ and Tissue...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe; United Nations: Organ Trafficking Treaty Proposed
(Oct. 15, 2009) On October 13, 2009, a study on human organ trafficking, issued jointly by the United Nations and the Council of Europe, was released. (TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES AND CELLS AND...
View ArticleIsrael: Encouragement of Organ Donation
(Jan. 19, 2010) On January 4, 2010, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Public Health Law, 5754-1994. According to the amendment, a person who donates an organ during his lifetime to another Israeli...
View ArticleColombia: Law on Presumptive Organ Donation
(Sept. 6, 2016) On August 4, 2016, Colombia’s President, Juan Manuel Santos, promulgated a new law on organ donations. (Ley 1805 Modifica la Ley 73 de 1988 y la Ley 919 de 2004 en Materia de Donación...
View ArticleJapan: Doctors Punished for Unauthorized Cord Blood Treatments
(Oct. 5, 2017) On September 22, 2017, two doctors in Japan were punished with a fine of one million yen (about US$9,000), based on the Act on the Safety of Regenerative Medicine, for having...
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