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A report from The Federalist is warning that doctors at one medical school are playing "fast and loose" with a law that requires organ donors to be dead before tissue is taken.
Organ-harvesting practices at the University of Nebraska Medical Center raise serious red flags as they seemingly abandon 'dead donor' rules.
As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How should we define when life ends? Cardiopulmonary bypass machines could keep the blood pumping and ventilators could maintain breathing long after a patient’s natural ability
As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How
For decades, the US medical establishment has adhered to a legally recognized standard for brain death. Why is a uniform clinical standard for the inception of human life proving so elusive?