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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Kidney Transplant Experts Recommend Single Registry For Donations.

The New York Times Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (4/1, A20, Sack, Subscription Publication) reported that last week at a two-day conference in Herndon, Virginia, "leaders in the field of kidney transplantation recommended...that a single nationwide registry should oversee the complex matching process needed to expand the use of transplant chains and other forms of paired donation." However, at the close of the meeting, "there was little consensus on how, when, or even whether the fragmented young field should unify." The Post added, "A number of people at the conference said the federal government should oversee a unified system for living donor exchanges in the way that it currently manages the deceased donor waiting list. The Department of Health and Human Services has long contracted that task to a single nonprofit group, the United Network for Organ Sharing."

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