• Collaboration announced to increase donation among minorities
  Friday, September 26, 2003
  Former NBA star Sean Elliott announced a national education campaign to promote organ donation among U.S. minority communities.
  

• New technology allows electronic sharing of donor information
  Wednesday, August 27, 2003
  DonorNet facilitates organ placement and acceptance by providing secure, convenient and flexible donor information to transplant center personnel.
  

• UNOS continues to review transplant error
  Wednesday, March 5, 2003
  We are reviewing the mismatched transplant and gathering facts from all members involved in the case.
  

• Statement regarding Jesica Santillian's transplant
  Thursday, February 20, 2003
  Information is being gathered from all organizations involved in the case.
  

• First heart transplant performed 35 years ago
  Tuesday, December 3, 2002
  Surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on a human being at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  

• Board revises kidney policy to boost minority transplants
  Thursday, November 14, 2002
  Data suggest the policy change would allow more than 200 additional kidney transplants annually for minority patients.
  

• Status of investigation into West Nile infection in organ transplant recipients
  Friday, September 20, 2002
  Officials are vigorously investigating possible cases of West Nile viral infection among transplant recipients.
  

• Possible West Nile Virus transmission through organ transplantation
  Monday, September 9, 2002
  This alert notice provides a summary of the current status of the ongoing investigation of this case.
  

• Board endorses studies of incentives to increase donation
  Friday, June 28, 2002
  A joint working group of interetested committees will offer recommendations on the development of such demonstration projects.
  

• Board approves liver allocation policy refinements
  Thursday, November 15, 2001
  For most patients, priority for a transplant would be based primarily on a calculation of short-term risk of death without transplantation.
  

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