Brown Wants More Organ Donation in UK

January 13, 2008 By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer Brown Wants More Organ Donation in UK (AP)

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves his official residence, 10 Downing Street in London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, Wednesday Jan. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

(AP) -- Britain's prime minister called Sunday for overhauling the country's organ donation system to make it easier for doctors to remove body parts from deceased patients without prior consent.

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