Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in the city of Suita in Osaka Prefecture on Aug. 9, 2010, which is planning to conduct a transplant operation using organs to be harvested from a brain-dead man whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing. The approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law

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