Organ transplants from brain-dead donors

Organ transplants from brain-dead donors

TOKYO, Japan - Archived photo shows a news conference given by officials of the Japanese Red Cross Kochi Hospital in Kochi city in February 1992 regarding a patient, the first potential organ donor under the organ transplant law enacted in 1997.

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