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New York City widens pool of kidney donors

By musiclover - Wed Dec 01, 4:02 pm

New York City is changing its kidney donors program to allow organs to be recovered from people who die of heart attacks outside hospitals.

The pilot program, launched on Wednesday by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Organ Donation Network, overrides rules that restrict the donation of kidneys to cardiac arrest victims who died inside hospitals.

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