• Report identifies 2008 transplant trends
  Monday, November 2, 2009
  This annual report and is based largely on data pertaining to the 10-year period, from 1998 to 2007.
  

• Committee analysis on disease transmission featured in American Journal of Transplantation
  Thursday, September 17, 2009
  In organ transplantation, there is always some risk that a disease present in the donor can be conveyed to recipients.
  

• Board addresses liver allocation, lung allocation, living donor policy
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  A new policy is designed to broaden access to donated livers for candidates at greatest short-term risk of dying without a transplant.
  

• OPTN statement regarding liver transplant waiting times and allocation
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  Recent news regarding liver transplantation has raised public questions regarding how donated livers are allocated.
  

• OPTN information regarding deceased directed donation
  Friday, May 29, 2009
  Recent news events have sparked public questions regarding directed donation.
  

• OPTN statement regarding H1N1 virus
  Friday, May 1, 2009
  The OPTN shares in the worldwide concern over the public health risk posed by the newly discovered H1N1 influenza strain, or "swine flu."
  

• Board addresses international definitions of transplant tourism
  Tuesday, March 3, 2009
  The definitions stem from a 2008 international conference to seek consensus among transplant professionals.
  

• National kidney allocation concepts discussed in public forum
  Monday, January 26, 2009
  More than 200 people participated in the event.
  

• Board addresses living donor safety, transplant program inactivity
  Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  Living donor organ recovery and transplantation must take place in OPTN member transplant centers.
  

• St. Vincent Medical Center fully reinstated
  Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  The action removes the status of probation.
  

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