Showing posts with label UNOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNOS. Show all posts
Monday, February 19, 2024

Kidney exchange in the U.S. from 2006-2021

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 Here's an interesting look at the (ongoing) development of kidney exchange in the U.S Temporal trends in kidney paired donation in the ...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

What's ahead for U.S. organ allocation in the coming year

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 Here's the December announcement from HRSA of their plans for reforming organ procurement and allocation this year.   Organ Procurement...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Waiting for HRSA's request for bids to reorganize deceased organ recovery and allocation

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Frank McCormick's invaluable email newsletter includes this Bloomberg article on potential bidders who may emerge when HRSA puts out bid...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

UNOS ends its liver exchange pilot program

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UNOS has shuttered it's liver exchange pilot program, after less than a year, without having performed any liver exchange transplants. (...
Friday, July 21, 2023

The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System: participant statements

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 Yesterday's Senate Finance committee hearings on The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System are on v...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care --testimony on organ transplants, going on now

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Watch right now or listen later.  UNOS is not popular in the Senate.   https://www.c-span.org/video/?529461-1/health-advocates-testify-impro...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

HRSA's Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative

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 The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has announced a timeline for moving forward on the proposal to reorganize the syste...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Deceased-donor transplants: UNOS in the crosshairs

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  There is unprecedented political will aiming towards reform of the system by which organs for transplant are recovered from deceased donor...