In a recent international academic journal, Chinese doctors at Renji Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University reported two cases of transplantation using kidneys from infants for adult patients with end-stage renal failure. Two infants had their kidneys removed—one day and three days after birth—respectively.
Given it would take weeks to months for an infant’s kidney to be matched for transplant, doctors may be targeting babies before they are even born by using the amniotic fluid for tissue typing, medical experts said, fearing that the Communist authorities may select Chinese infants before birth as an organ production machine. -- More...
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