Health authorities are setting clinical criteria on brain death to facilitate human organ transplants, a senior official said yesterday. A panel of medical and ethical experts have been convened to define brain death and associated clini ... ...full story at People's Daily
from People's Daily on Thu, Oct 11 2007
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