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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Did You Read Any of Larry Niven's Organlegger Stories?

A future where demand for transplantable organs led to many minor crimes turning capital to get the criminals' organs.  This is not quite there but still troubling.  

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a reform of the organ-transplant system and threatened to close a major procurement body, after a probe found premature attempts to start organ retrieval while patients showed signs of life.

"The investigation conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a division of HHS, examined 351 cases where organ donation was authorized but not completed. It found 73 patients had shown neurological signs incompatible with organ donation and at least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated, the HHS said in a statement on Monday."

A little less enthusiasm,  please.

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