New England Donor Services Blog
NEDS 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...
read moreFamed Surgeon Worried About For-Profit Corporations Overseeing Donation System
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...
read moreNEDS Response to Misleading WBUR Radio Report
On May 4, 2023 Boston public radio station WBUR aired a radio and online story on organ donation in New England that was factually incorrect and made false mischaracterizations about New England Donor Services (NEDS)....
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