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An organ transplant controversy tests 'the dead donor rule'
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NPR reports that new guidelines are meant to protect organ donors in a retrieval procedure that keeps blood flowing through livers, kidneys, lungs and hearts. According to NPR, bioethicists are raising questions about the procedure, which the outlet frames as a test of "the dead donor rule."
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An organ transplant controversy tests 'the dead donor rule'
New guidelines are supposed to protect organ donors in a retrieval procedure that keeps blood flowing through livers, kidneys, lungs and hearts. But bioethicists have troubling questions.
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