• National waiting list passes 100 thousand
  Wednesday, July 30, 2008
  The kidney is the organ most commonly needed and most commonly transplanted.
  

• New organ package labels available
  Wednesday, July 30, 2008
  The new labels are intended to reduce potential packaging/labeling errors.
  

• Board approves measures to broaden access for living donation
  Friday, June 20, 2008
  The board also addressed pediatric transplantation and highly-sensitized kidney transplant candidates.
  

• Programming conflicts delay implementation of CPRA phase II
  Thursday, May 1, 2008
  Transplant professionals should continue to familiarize themselves with the CPRA policy.
  

• Report identifies 2007 transplant trends
  Tuesday, April 22, 2008
  More than 50 experts from many areas of the transplant community contributed to the annual report.
  

• Data show marked decrease in heart transplant waiting list mortality after OPTN policy change
  Friday, February 22, 2008
  Waiting list deaths among heart transplant candidates have dramatically decreased since a 2006 policy change in heart allocation.
  

• Board addresses member probation, living donor resource
  Thursday, February 21, 2008
  The board of directors withdrew the status of probation for Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
  

• Board approves resource regarding informed consent of potential living donors
  Tuesday, September 18, 2007
  The OPTN/UNOS Living Donor Committee developed the document.
  

• Board approves new bylaws for living donor transplant programs
  Tuesday, September 18, 2007
  The new bylaws require programs performing living donor transplantation to have written protocols.
  

• St. Vincent Medical Center status moved to probation
  Tuesday, August 21, 2007
  Status was previously member not in good standing.
  

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