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Chile’s ‘COVID-19 card’ sparks controversy over ‘uncertainty of evidence’ about immunity

COVID-19

Chile’s push for so-called “immunity passports” — an all-clear card of sorts issued to people who have already had the illness — has sparked controversy due to the lack of evidence that immunity is guaranteed after the first bout.

New lymphatic vessels

Scientists have discovered the ‘missing link’ between the brain and the immune system

Science
The World

Why 21st-century anti-vaxxers have nothing on their 18th-century counterparts

Health
Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.

How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate

Culture

New peanut allergy tests points to great over-diagnosis in kids

Health & Medicine

An estimated two-thirds of organ transplants in China come from executed prisoners

Officials in China’s Ministry of Health admit they harvest organs from death row inmates for the majority of transplants in the country. It is estimated that two-thirds of the country’s total organ transplants come from executed prisoners.

Allergic reaction to climate change

Health & Medicine

With rising temperatures and more precipitation, allergies and stinging insects are also on the rise.

In China, Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners

Global Politics

Marco Werman talks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing about the Chinese practice of harvesting human organs from executed prisoners. About two thirds of organs transplanted in China come from executed prisoners.

Listener responses: bone marrow donation

Yesterday, we spoke with blogger Seth Godin, who wanted to help his friend and colleague Amit Gupta, who has leukemia, so he offered up a challenge to his readers: the first bone marrow donor match to Gupta who would donate stem cells would receive $10,000. But under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, better […]

The Ethics of Offering Money for Organ Transplants

Blogger Seth Godin  wanted to help  his friend and colleague Amit Gupta, who has leukemia, so he offered up a challenge to his readers: the first bone marrow donor match to Gupta who would donate stem cells would receive $10,000. But under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, better known as NOTA, it’s a federal crime […]