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Brain Dead

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DC hospital suing to cease life support on youth

At Children's Medical Center in Washington, D.C., a Brooklyn youth is at the center of a controversy about whether the hospital has a right to discontinue life support after ruling the boy brain dead

Doctors are debating when to declare organ donors dead

In the past, transplant procedures were fairly cut and dried: Doctors only removed a patient's organs after their brain stopped working completely. Lately, however, three heart transplants have taken