China Announces a System for Voluntary Organ Donors
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:44
in Mathematics & Economics
China inaugurated its first voluntary organ-donor program, hoping to overhaul a system that now gets most of its organs from the black-market and executed convicts.
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