Several aspects of the law are under review, state officials have said, to make organ procurement easier.

Until recently their major activities had involved organ procurement and smuggling.

A. It is such a definite advantage in organ procurement.

The group said that all decisions regarding organ procurement should be in the hands of the medical examiner.

Its rate of organ procurement is below the national average of 21 donor organs for one million people.

The United States has two agencies that govern organ procurement and distribution within the country.

As an economic sociologist, Healy adds important dimensions to the intensifying debate over organ procurement.

He added that one problem with the Pittsburgh protocol was that "it ties the planned death of patients with organ procurement.

As Sharp has indicated, "through organ procurement, human bodies are commodified and codified following a relatively strict hierarchy of medical value and social worth".

The number of patients now on the waiting list and other data are available at Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: www.optn.org .