New England Donor Services Blog
Feds Threaten to Close Organ Donation Non-Profits Despite Record Donation and Transplant Levels
Despite record levels of donation and transplant, faulty federal regulations threaten the closure of organ procurement organizations across the United States. The New Hampshire Bulleting is covering the issue indepth... “We recognize no regulation...
read moreJune 2024 A Record Month For Donation In New England
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....
read moreNEDS Responds to False and Misleading NPR Interview
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...
read moreNEDS Opposes Bill to Create an Unregulated Organ Sales Marketplace in New Hampshire
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...
read moreNew England Donor Services Response to Biased and Misleading Story on Liver Allocation Reform
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...
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