{"id":4158,"date":"2022-04-07T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:11:24","slug":"the-people-making-organ-transplants-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/07\/the-people-making-organ-transplants-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Making Organ Transplants More Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4158\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Existing and emerging biotech advances are transforming the way we preserve and transport donated organs. While their methods may vary, all share a common end goal: saving more lives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Donate Life Month, celebrated every April, is here once again. It\u2019s a time to acknowledge and encourage the gift of life that organ donation provides. Since the<a href=\"https:\/\/unos.org\/transplant\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;first successful organ transplant<\/a>&nbsp;in 1954, countless lives have been saved through transplants. Just last year, surgeons performed a record number of transplants \u2014 more than 40,000, roughly 60 percent of which were kidneys alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are some 106,000 people currently on the national transplant waiting list and, with another person being added<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.organdonor.gov\/learn\/organ-donation-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0every nine minutes<\/a>, this need outpaces supply. Every day, an estimated 17 people die waiting for an available organ. And lack of supply isn\u2019t the only barrier to transplants; viability of the organs is another issue. Thousands of donated organs go to waste each year because they don\u2019t reach a potential recipient in time. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/technology\/the-people-making-organ-transplants-more-efficient\">Read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4158\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Existing and emerging biotech advances are transforming the way we preserve and transport donated organs. While their methods may vary, all share a common end goal: saving more lives. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/07\/the-people-making-organ-transplants-more-efficient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The People Making Organ Transplants More Efficient&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,29],"tags":[342,281],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1633","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}