LA Times highlights predatory organ harvesting industry, and other news you may have missed today
News notes for October 31, 2019.
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Articles tagged Organ Transplant Industry
Neurologist exposes ‘brain death’ myth behind multi-billion-dollar organ transplant industry
‘The brain is silent but not dead,’ but medical students are not being given the truth.
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Irish health minister to introduce legislation making organ donation automatic without permission
'It is my goal to make organ donation the norm in Ireland ... '
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European doctors push for harvesting organs from patients they help kill
A physician and euthanasia supporter wants to see the practice expand in Canada.
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Watch: Shocking realities of ‘brain death’ and organ transplants
Meet some of the victims created by a diagnosis of brain death and listen to their compelling stories in a two-part TV episode of Facing Life Head-On.
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Britain’s NHS asks moms not to abort disabled babies, but the reason has pro-lifers up in arms
'Babies should be spared abortion because they are babies – not because they are useful to others if taken to term.'
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Girl at center of ‘brain death’ controversy dies before Nevada hearing
Aden Hailu's case has forced medical practitioners to confront the controversial definition of 'brain death' and the live organ harvesting that accompanies it.
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Dad who saved son’s life by armed, three-hour hospital standoff is freed from prison
Doctors wrongly told family that George was brain dead and had no hope of recovery. Both George's mother and his brother agreed to take him off life support and donate organs.
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