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2000

Advocates Urge Transplant Network To Comply With Rule	Alternate Kidney Allocation System Could Reduce Transplant Waiting Time	Battle Over Nation's Organ Transplant System Heats Up
Bill Would Mandate Organ Donation	Bill Would Put Kids First In Organ-Transplant Line	Campaign for Transplant Patient Fairness Supports LaHood-Rush Bill
New Company Wants To Run Nation's Transplant Network	Organ Transplant Expert Eyes Compromise	Campaign For Transplant Patient Fairness Cites Evidence
Transplant Rules Allow Directed Donation	Human Embryos Created To Supply Researchers	Experts Stumped On How To Improve Procurement
Hawaii News: Donated Organs First Offered Locally	HHS Announces Creation Of Organ Transplantation Advisory	Laws May Boost Organ Donations
New Contract For Transplant Network May Settle Fight	New Mexico Transplant Programs' Future Concerns Some	NTAC Urges Clinton Administration To Enforce Transplant Regulations
Oregon Denies Transplants For Dying Teen	McMinnville, Oregon Rallies Around Special Grad	Q & A: Why The Oregon Health Plan Won't Pay
Transplant Fight Rekindles Health Plan Debate	Millionaire Businessman To Pay For Teen's Double Transplant	Stroeder's Fight To Live Enters Its Next Round
Double-Transplant Patient Gets Her Send-Off	Teen Wrestles With Enormity Of Possible Double Transplant	Organ-Transplant Network Approves Rules On Liver Recipients
University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center Statement On UNOS	Planned Parenthood Reaffirms Support of Fetal Tissue Donation	Transplant Group Disappointed With Network Decision
'It's Inherently Unfair'	UNOS Chosen To Operate Nation's Organ Transplant System	UNOS Proposes To Refine Medical Urgency For Liver Transplant Candidates
Wading Into Fray On Organ Allocation

2001

Organ Exchanges Push Boundaries	HHS Grants Aim To Increase Organ, Tissue Donation	HIV-Positive Man Wins Transplant Ruling
Mexican Teen Awaits Urgent Surgery In Chicago	Transplant Network Tries New Rules For Allocating Livers	Transplant Network Backs New Criteria

2002

Cloning, Opposition To Financial Incentives For Organ Donation Among Health Care Issues To Be Discussed At AOA Meeting	If Congress Doesn't Fix Drug Rule, Medicare Might	AMA Votes To Promote Research Into Payment For Organ Donation
Teen Who Sued Oregon For Rare Transplant Prepped For Procedure	Paying For The Gift Of Life	Organ Transplants For Inmates
Transplants For HIV+ Patients? Ethicists Say Yes

2003

Solving The Organ Transplant "Crisis"	Organ Transplant Rules Tightened	Call To Reward Brain-Dead Donor Families For Organs
Convicted Killer's Transplant Sparks Ethical Debate	Death Row Inmate Seeks Organ Transplant	Oregon Death Row Kidney Transplant Said Unlikely
Feedback On Human Organ Transplant Act Amendments Positive: NKF	Appeals Court Rules Organ Transplant Group Immune From Suit, But Not Other Defendants	Some Of Oregon Poor Losing Chance At Organ Transplant
Incentives For Saving Lives	Automation Makes Life Easier For LifeLink Foundation	Indian Country Copes With Issues Of Organ Donations, Homosexuality

2004

Activists defend private deals to match organ donor, recipient	Doctor Risks Prestigious Career To Take Ethical Stand	Transplant deals run into brick wall
A Year Of Grief, Changes	Geography Matters With Organ Transplants	New Policy Stops Transplant Heart Gaming But Potential Still Exists
Bill Would Let HIV Patients Donate Organs	Cutting in line for organ transplants	Public plea spurs new liver, and debate over technique
Dying to Donate?	Colorado 'Brain Death' Case: Nightmare or Wake-Up Call?	Panel wants Montrose coroner to resign

2005

Let's pay organ donors!	Dispute draws attention to organ banks' practices	Organ Transplant Community Grapples With Ethical Pitfalls
Maine not alone in efforts to police organ donations	Blue Cross-Blue Shield denies liver transplant to HIV-Positive man	Cut to heart of transplant shortage
Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe	Sale of organs a complicated issue	Out of line
Man Who Used Billboards to Get Liver Dies	Questionable organ transplant processes raise ethical issues	Death Row request puts ethics to test
Clemency Denied for Death Row Inmate	The gift of life is a choice not a requirement	Web site links kidney patient, donor
Transplants: Do We Have the Right?	Saving lives with the Net	Give an organ, get an organ
Impatient patients vex organ-Donor network	Debate over appeals for organs heats up	What if everyone were a donor?
Saudi national allegedly moved up waiting list at L.A. hospital; transplants halted	Organ Transplants for Patients with HIV	HIV-Positive woman appeals decision to deny transplant
Organ donation inequity fears rise after report	Love, altruism won't fix organ shortage	Don't Take Your Organs To Heaven
Scrutiny of St. Vincent Intensifies	Some Jumping the Line on Organ Transplants	Clarifying organ donor process will save lives
Nephrologists cry foul over Government's circular on kidney transplant	AHCCCS must cover transplant	American Society of Transplantation Says 'Grey's Anatomy's' Portrayal of Transplantation Issues Harmful to the Public
Web Site Helps Match Organ Donors To Needy	Policy eased on organ donors	Donated organs rejected because Tucson man was gay

2006

Whose body is it?	Donor Network Right to Refuse Organs from Homosexual, Says Christian Doc	Paying for organs would complicate transplant medicine
Organ-Donor unease	Need an Organ? It Helps to Be Rich	Justices of peace in tough spot in organ donation cases
Call to allow body organ selling	Bill makes everyone an organ donor	Organ transplantation might increase with fairness
New Solution to the organ shortage	On My Mind	I Would Give My Left Kidney to Prove I'm Right
Death row as source for organ donations?	1 in 4 Donated Hearts Come From Uninsured	Hollywood Organ Donation Myths Challenged at the Workplace
Organs should be for sale	Film, television scares off potential organ donors	Death by Geography
Advocates fight for transplant rules, registry	Organ donations fall short; financial incentives can help	The Waiting Game
Organ donor pool to expand	Alberta has shortest kidney transplant waits	Ease the market for organ donors
Ghouls won't like it, but transplant law needs change	Greater than H: The Thuggery of Ethicists	Organ Donation after Cardiac Death a Danger to Critical Patients ~ Medical Professor
Organs for Sale	Transplant centers penalized

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