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Even some of the sharpest critics of the brain-death criteria argue that there is no possibility that donors will be in pain during the harvesting of their organs.
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Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.
MSN: Study finds increase in unused transplant livers
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At that point, Jones said he decided to donate his own brain to the Sports Legacy Institute -- which studies the link between sports and brain trauma -- for research upon his death.
CNN: Former NFL player wants brain studied
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Duerson's son Tregg said that the analysis of his father's brain -- the answers to questions about death -- has given the family a measure of closure.
CNN: Tests reveal former NFL player suffered from brain disease
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Thus, the adoption of gloves to make bare-knuckled boxing safer made it possible for fighters to throw head punches without breaking their hands--resulting in more brain injuries and death.
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It is also suspected that brain cell death in Parkinson's patients is caused by over-activity of another brain chemical called glutamate.
BBC: Epilepsy drug 'treats Parkinson's'
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But in at least two studies before the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, some "brain-dead" patients were found to be emitting brain waves.
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Under Jewish and Islamic law, animals for slaughter must be healthy and uninjured at the time of death, which rules out driving a bolt into the brain - though some Muslim authorities accept forms of stunning that can be guaranteed not to kill the animal.
BBC: Should animals be stunned before slaughter?
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Thames Valley Police said the post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a bleed on the brain.
BBC: Alvescot Road, Carterton
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But a month later, after a second post-mortem examination by another pathologist, he changed the cause of death to a brain haemorrhage.
BBC: Tomlinson pathologist 'irresponsible' in earlier cases
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The most severe complication of measles - occurring in only one in 100, 000 cases - is a slowly-progressive brain disorder which does not normally show until some time after the original infection, causing seizures and even death.
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