You can sell that?

July 27th, 2009

Coming out of last week’s NJ scandle was the arrest of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, who has been accused of brokering illegal deals to organs.  Newsweek published an interesting article about this market and highlighted costs associated with these organs on the black market.  Who knew that Kidney’s could go for updwards of $30,000?!

Read more on Newsweek.

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