• 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.
  

• 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.
  

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