In a bizarre and revealing moment on the red carpet of China’s World War II victory parade, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were caught on a hot microphone discussing radical life-extension through organ transplants. The conversation, apparently believed to be private, was inadvertently aired by Chinese state media and quickly picked up by observers.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched an effort to reform the organ transplant system after it was discovered that hospitals have allowed the procurement process to begin while patients still show signs of life.
