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Brain death criteria for children to be studied.

Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri

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Brain death criteria for children to be studied

Yomiuri

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is set to begin discussing the criteria by which doctors would diagnose brain death in children under 15 under the revised Organ Transplant Law enacted Monday.

The ministry also will examine how to confirm whether potential donors did or did not intend to donate their organs.

The revised law has paved the way for children under 15 to become organ donors, which is prohibited under the current law enacted in 1997. A bill to revise the law passed at the Monday plenary session of the House of Councillors with 138 votes in favor of it and 82 opposed. Twenty …

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