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Organ donors needed, but do your homework first

A decision to donate used to be a highly personal matter. But dying in the modern medical system is anything but. If you want ...
CNN

More people need transplants than there are organ donors. Pigs might be a solution

Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. He was 58 and had end-stage heart failure. Peripheral ...
Medical Xpress

Opt-out laws designed to make organ donation easier may have actually made it harder, says research

In 2020, England introduced an opt-out system for organ donation with the aim of making it easier for organs to be donated after a person's death. The Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 assumed ...
CNN

A surgical team was about to harvest this man’s organs — until his doctor intervened

Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room. “Get him off the table,” ...