Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Doctors enter a hospital in western Japan to remove organs from a brain-dead man for transplant on Aug. 19, 2010. His family consented for the man's organs to be donated, although he had not expressed his intention to donate in writing, in the second such case in Japan under a revised transplant law.

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