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| March 01, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2009 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medical ethicists are warning that guidelines are needed to cover instances in which family members want to donate organs for transplant from living but comatose relatives who never gave consent.

"The specter of keeping patients alive to harvest their organs over time seems horrific," two ethicists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in the February 11, 2004, edition, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The article accompanies a report from doctors in Los Angeles about a young firefighter who suffered sudden, severe bleeding in his brain and lapsed into a coma from which he was not …

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