New York plans procedures to aid organ recovery
                   
app.com     May 13, 2008            

By ROBERT DAVIS • USA TODAY • May 13, 2008 New York City officials plan within months to dispatch the nation's first ambulance equipped to preserve bodies of the newly dead so that families have time to consider organ donation. The controversial twist: Crews would swoop in and perform procedures... [read full story]                

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