Sentences with phrase «allowing organ donation»

On the driver's license application, the question about joining the program and allowing organ donation would now be mandatory.

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But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

The option of organ donation may actually help resolve a family's anger over the death, allowing them the chance to forgive, Fletcher said.

At a conference on transplantation last year sponsored by the American College of Legal Medicine, Thomas Starzl endorsed a policy of presumed consent, which allows physicians to retrieve organs unless the deceased opted out by specifically stating an opposition to organ donation prior to death.

She points to Iran, which has allowed kidney donations for cash since 1988, virtually eliminating the waiting list for the organ.

The federal government continues to determine what expenses are allowed to be paid for surrogacy, organ and sperm donation.

In such situations, this provision is intended to allow covered entities to initiate contact with organ and tissue donation and transplantation organizations to facilitate transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, and tissues.