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Organ donation rates have stagnated in Canada since 2006, according to a new report. More...

WASHINGTON – Courtney Montgomery's heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant. Previous surgeries hadn't helped and the North Carolina girl didn't believe this scarier operation would either. It would take another teen...

-- A Turkish doctor arrested in an investigation into an alleged human organ smuggling ring protested his innocence Wednesday. "There is no such crime. There is no organ trade," Yusuf Ercin Sonmez told reporters outside a courthouse, according to Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian news agency...

Philippine officials say Saudi man married local woman to sidestep law, buy her kidney By Teresa Cerojano, The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines - A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino woman as a cover for buying her kidney, trying to circumvent the Philippines' strict new rules to fight...