- Bioethics Forum Essay
New Regulation for Organ Procurement Will Improve Equity and Save Lives
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn the more than 35 years since federal legislation created organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to recover organs from deceased donors for transplantation, there has been a disparity in their performance, with the best OPOs recovering organs from four times as many donors as the worst OPOs by obj...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayMore than 100,000 people in this country are waiting for a life-saving transplant and on average 30 people die each day while waiting. The nonprofit organizations responsible for coordinating organ transplants between donors and recipient could be doing more to lower these numbers. A new government proposal designed to more closely regulate OPOs could, in some respects, actually make the situation worse.Read the Post