• 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.
  

• More than 50 thousand US patients waiting for kidney transplant
  Friday, October 5, 2001
  As of October 1, 2001, 78,350 people were on the national organ transplantation waiting list and 50,004 were awaiting a kidney.
  

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