The article reports on the proposal to overhaul of the kidney donation system by matching
the best 20% of kidneys from deceased donors with the 20% of recipients who will likely to …

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Background Even if every potential deceased kidney donor in the US was to actually donate,
the kidney shortage would remain. Reducing demand for transplants by tightening the …

In the 53 years since kidney transplantation was first performed, this procedure has evolved
from a highly speculative biomedical endeavor to a medically viable and often standard …

It is now almost 70 years since the first successful kid-ney transplant when a living-related
kidney transplant between identical twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston was …

The supply of organs—particularly kidneys—donated by living and deceased donors falls
short of the number of patients added annually to transplant waiting lists in the United States …

Organ allocation policy cannot improve access to health care or compensate for regional
differences in disease prevalence. Its primary purpose is to ration a scare resource. The …

Kidney Donation: When All Else Fails, Try a Regulated Market Page 1 44 JOURNAL OF THE
NATIONAL MEDIcAL ASSOcIATION VOL. 102, NO. 1, JANUARY 2010 M E D I C A L L E G A L …

The shortage of organs is a crisis in clinical transplantation. In spite of numerous attempts to
increase both living and deceased kidney donation rates in the United States, there has not …

The United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit group that manages the nation's organ
transplant system, wants to change the system for allocating kidneys from deceased donors …