CHINESE MEDICS KILLED DEATH ROW INMATES BY TAKING HEARTS: REPORT

Hundreds of Chinese surgeons and medical personnel have been accused of killing death row prisoners by removing their hearts for transplant even before the inmates had been officially declared dead, in a new academic paper.

International guidelines on the ethics surrounding organ transplants state that organ removal must not cause the death of the donor, but the new research from the Australian National University published this week in the American Journal of Transplantation suggests Chinese surgeons might have done just hat.

A forensic review of 2,838 reports in Chinese scientific journals revealed 71 cases where