IBTimes.co.ukDeath Row Organ Harvesting: China to Implement New Donation ProgrammeIBTimes.co.ukWang said there are a number of problems that will need to be addressed before the programme is in place, including new legislation that determines 'brai…
Marion man faces felony child-abuse chargesAsheville Citizen-TimesThe child's family requested the girl's organs be donated, and physicians conducted a series of tests to determine brain-death and obtain her organs, Mission said in a release. A…
McDowell County child abuse investigation: child remains in critical condition …Mountain XpressIn order to obtain the organs, Mission Children's Hospital physicians needed to determine brain death. There is a very specific and prescribed battery …
The Age'Brain-dead' definition flawed, says ethicistThe AgeA spokesman for the intensive care society that establishes the brain death criteria (ANZICS), Associate Professor Bill Silvester, said Professor Tonti-Filippini was wrong, and potentia…
The deadly dilemmaSydney Morning Herald (blog)Tonti-Filippini and Tibbals back the existing legal definition of brain death, which is the irreversible loss of all brain function (or the irreversible cessation of circulation). They say it requires an im…
Organs of young skateboard accident victim save five peopleJerusalem PostAfter it became certain that he had suffered from lower-brain death, the family agreed to give his organs at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. All were performed at the Rabin Medi…
Denmark shocked by story of brain-dead donor's recoveryNational Right to Life NewsThe hospital acknowledged that the question of organ donation should not have been raised as there were no unambiguous signs that brain death would occur. New guideli…
Kidney, liver donations more than double in last five years in MumbaiHindustan Times… awareness about it. “Our efforts to create awareness are finally paying off. Five years ago, relatives of the patient did not even know the concept of brain death…
Life could still be in organ donors declared dead, says ethicistThe Border MailProfessor Tonti-Filippini said most faiths accepted brain death as death, which they understood as the separation of the soul from the body, and if the organs of the body no…
The AgeLife could still be in organ donors declared dead, says ethicistThe Age“The law defines death as the irreversible loss of all brain function, but philosophically people are now saying the crucial aspect is consciousness and are diagnosing brai…