Transplants Using Stopped Hearts Prompt Ethics Debate

On the surface, the research study seems as if it had a great outcome: Three children are alive today because, as infants, they received hearts donated by three other babies whose hearts had stopped. But the new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, which was performed by a team including researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, has provoked not only applause, but difficult and

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