by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jul 31, 2024 | Milestone, News
In June 2024, organ donation in New England attained a new monthly record high when New England Donor Services as coordinated a record breaking 64 organ donors resulting in 154 life-saving organs for transplant from those donors. “This record month of...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Apr 13, 2024 | Debunking Myths
NEDS is concerned that national NPR aired a segment on April 13, 2024 (“Patients die every day waiting for organ transplants. The problem isn’t a lack of donations”) which included a number of false, misleading and unsupported statements. In this segment, NPR only...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Feb 22, 2024 | News, Press
Now pending before the New Hampshire legislature is House Bill 1482, “An act relative to the sale of human blood and organs.” If passed into law, the bill would allow for the unregulated private sale of organs between individuals within the state....
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jan 9, 2024 | News
A website called The Markup – funded by the same foundation that is providing financial support to organizations that are looking to add for-profit corporations to the donation and transplant policy making process and are interested in competing for contracts to...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Sep 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Renowned transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender warns on the decision to include for-profit corporations directly into the organ donation system. As a Black transplant surgeon with five decades of experience, I have spent my entire career fighting to improve the...
