Controversial proposal for kidney transplants ...

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If someone needs a kidney transplant today, it doesn't matter if she's

25 or 60 years old. What counts is how long she has spent waiting for

a suitable organ to become available.

That would change under a controversial new proposal by the nation's

organ transplant network that was unveiled Thursday in Dallas. The

plan would give kidneys to patients who would live longest after a

transplant, not those who have languished longest on waiting lists.

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