FRESNO, Calif.—The brother of a comatose woman at the center of a life support fight hopes to move her from Fresno to a Bay Area hospital closer to relatives.
Michael Dancoff says he has agreed to take conservatorship over 46-year-old Janet Rivera, who gained media attention in July when the Fresno County Public Guardian's office kept her off feeding tubes and a respirator for 11 days....
Brother wants control over comatose Fresno woman
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A federally funded research project has described how surgeons were able to snatch the hearts from severely brain-damaged newborns only seconds after they were disconnected from life-support units and transplant the organs into other diseased infants, but the work is raising alarms from those who say the donors weren't dead yet.
The work was documented in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine today, which in an unusual move also published a series of commentaries about the study that offered harsh criticism.
"It is impossible to transplant a heart successfully after irreversible stoppage: if a heart is restarted, the person from whom it was taken cannot have been dead according to cardiac criteria. Removing organs from a patient whose heart not only can be restarted, but also has been or will be restarted in another body, is ending a life by organ removal," wrote Dr. Robert Veatch, professor of medical ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University................
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