706510login-checkExperts Demand Overhaul of Organ Transplant System During Senate Hearing |
— Patient representative has “zero confidence” in change if UNOS remains involved
By Shannon Firth
Patients, advocates, and one rogue organ procurement organization (OPO) executive, among others, pledged support for legislation that aims to disrupt a decades-long monopoly over the U.S. transplant system during a hearing opens in a new tab or window of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care on Thursday.
“Every day 17 people die while on organ transplant waiting lists and another 13 are removed from the waiting list because they’ve become too sick to receive a transplant,” said Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.). Read the full story in MedPage Today.
706510login-checkExperts Demand Overhaul of Organ Transplant System During Senate Hearing |