by Sean Fitzpatrick | Nov 5, 2024 | Debunking Myths, News
A recently published peer-reviewed article in Critical Care Medicine, a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, found major that Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) approached families for organ donation at the same rates, regardless of race or ethnicity....
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Sep 15, 2024 | News
The nation’s two foremost organizations representing expertise in donation and transplant warned federal policymakers this week that the US’ world leading system of organ donation and life-saving transplant will be jeopardized if policy is driven by misinformation,...
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 | 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 | May 4, 2023 | News
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). This occurred even though NEDS President and CEO...
