Naval fraternity donates organsTimes of IndiaAt the seminar, transplant surgeons from AORTA, Capt CS Naidu and Col Sandeep Thareja, explained the intricacies of organ donation and also highlighted the legal and ethical aspects of organ retrieval after …
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Fetuses remember! Proof of fetal ‘personhood?’
Lifesite (blog) I reject personhood theory that requires an organism to have certain conscious capacities to attain moral value. I believe that being human is the primary question. But what are personhood theorists to make of a new study demonstrating that fetuses … |
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Plugging Tepco’s brain drain
The Japan Times An official of the trade and industry ministry said that Tepco may well already be in a state of “imminent brain death.” The company’s financial straits stem from mounting expenditures to deal with the Fukushima nuclear crisis: (1) compensation paid to … |
Zombies Needed for Drone TerrorCenter for Research on GlobalizationThose of us who have not yet succumbed to propaganda-induced brain death realize that it is the military and the corporate media who have become non-human. We can see that the real zomb…
Fortis to train 5000 cabbies in West Bengal to provide life supportTimes of IndiaIf a defibrillator is not readily available, brain death will occur in less than 10 minutes. The only way to buy time while the defibrillator becomes available is to provi…
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Open Book: Love Letters of the Angels of Death, by Jennifer Quist
National Post There is the incident in which a doctor explains why he doesn’t like family members present at a test for brain death because such tests are often disturbing. During the tests brain-dead patients sometimes lift their arms and drop them on their laps … |
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British Vegetarian Ritchii Kara Diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease
IBTimes.co.uk VCJD is transmitted by a protein called prion which builds up in the brain. Death usually occurs within 12 months of the onset of the disease. Disturbing images of cattle suffering mad cow’s disease during the mid-1990s and a small number of vCJD cases … |
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Man Comes Back to Life After Doctors Prematurely Declare Him Dead
LifeNews.com For example, Nature recently editorialized in favor of liberalizing the rules governing brain death. Currently, brain death requires the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain and each of its constituent parts. Nature’s editorial … |
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‘You’ll meet an end like Gandhi’
Pune Mirror With brain death, the heart is still beating and mechanical ventilation is going on, hence all other vital organs can be kept completely alive and functional providing the opportunity to harvest the organs. Dabholkar took three bullets, two in his … |
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Save 7 lives
Health24.com “While it is essential that organs and tissues are removed as soon as possible after death, in order to ensure successful transplantation, brain death has to be certified by two independent doctors.” Two doctors, who are completely independent of the … Donor’s Info Guide To Organ DonationFox 2 KFXV |