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Rich Foreigners Jump List for Brit Organs

Doctors outraged as a record 8,000 Britons await transplants

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 4, 2009 12:49 PM CST

(Newser) – Despite dire organ shortages for ailing British patients, the livers of 50 UK donors were sold to foreigners for nearly $110,000 each, the Times of London reports. Forty patients from Greece and Cyprus—as well as others from non-EU nations including Libya, the UAE,...   Read full story »

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