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Doctors slam China's 'live' organ program
« on: November 20, 2011, 04:10:41 PM »
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=55918544-38fa-445d-8df1-e30886970ed9

Doctors slam China's 'live' organ program
 
Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are harvested, then left to die, an international group of doctors is warning.

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