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About Organ & Tissue Donation
- NKF To Answer Questions About New Medicare Benefit - Free Audio Conference Upcoming.
Signed into law last December, the Beneficiary Improvements and Protection Act (BIPA, Public Law 106-554) provided more than 34,000 transplant recipients in this country with significant extended Medicare coverage of critical immunosuppressive (anti-rejection) medications . . . (read more)
- K/DOQI To Examine Dyslipidemias In Transplant Patients
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has convened a work group to develop clinical practice guidelines for management of lipid abnormalities in transplant recipients . . . (read more)
- National Kidney Foundation Supports Legislation to Assist Living Organ Donors With Expenses
The Organ Donation Improvement Act of 2001 (H.R. 624), passed yesterday (March 7, 2001) by the House of Representatives, would alleviate some of the financial burden on organ donors . . . (read more)
- Medicare Bill to Help Organ Transplant Recipients
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) announced today (December 18, 2000) that Congress has extended Medicare coverage of critical immunosuppressive medications for certain organ transplant recipients . . . (read more)
- New Living Donor Statement Focuses on Donors’ Physical and Emotional Well-Being
Responding to the 123% increase in living organ donation in the last decade, as compared with a mere 44.5% increase in non-living donation over the same time period, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons convened a National Consensus Conference on Living Donor Organ Transplantation . . . (read more)
- Organ & Tissue Donation and Transplantation Fact Sheets
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