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The 2017 call for abstracts has been extended to Wednesday, September 21 at Midnight (CT).
The ITNS Annual Symposium Planning Committee invites you to present at the 26th Annual Symposium, "Reflections of Transplant Nursing Excellence," at Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Lake Buena Vista, FL on 24-26 June 2017. Learn more about abstract requirements and start your submission now, and we hope to see you in 2017!
By Chelsea Adams
 The federal government is attempting to shorten the length of time organ recipients spend on waiting lists. A three-pronged plan that involves government agencies and private entities was revealed recently. Announced at a summit held at the White House, the plan spells out ways the Department of Defense, private businesses and nonprofit groups will work to reduce the number of people on organ waiting lists.
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WFAA.com
Two college buddies who became internet sensations with a viral video about a kidney donation successfully underwent the procedure at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth.
Graham McMillan and Danny Kolzow saw each other for the first time after both men underwent five-hour surgery to transplant Graham's kidney into Danny's body.
The 30-second embrace in an eighth-floor hallway was a heartfelt moment neither man says they'll soon forget.
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New York Daily News
State officials have raised more than $1 million over the past decade to promote organ donation but haven’t spent a penny of it, a new audit revealed.
State Controller Thomas DiNapoli’s audit criticized the state Health Department for sitting on money for the Donate Life Registry, which was raised through the sale of specialized license plates and a check-off box on license application forms.
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Houston Chronicle
Earlier this summer, the Obama administration announced key actions to reduce the amount of time patients spend on the national organ transplant waiting list. There are currently more than 120,000 Americans waiting for organ transplants (over 80 percent are waiting for kidneys), while 22 people die each day waiting for a replacement organ. Furthermore, the need for transplant organs has increased nearly 600 percent since the early 90’s, while the total number of transplants has remained relatively constant.
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Philly.com
For Robin Larocca, her lungs ravaged by a rare disease, the options were disappearing quickly.
In three months, her doctors said, she would be too sick for the transplant she needed to save her life. In a year or so, she would likely be dead.
There appeared to be no available match, particularly because Larocca needed a double transplant rather than the more common single lung.
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Chicago Tribune
Users of Tinder, the popular online dating app, usually swipe right on their mobile screens to gain a potential match. Come September, the same action might allow them to save lives by registering to be an organ donor.
The donor registration drive is the culmination of the partnership between Tinder and a nonprofit group called Organize, which aims to end the organ donor shortage. A similar campaign between Tinder and the National Health Service was carried out in Britain last year.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 A Norwegian study of over 70,000 cardiac patients found that the more education patients had, the less their risk of heart failure was. Previous research has shown that patients are more likely to die after a heart attack if they have a lower educational level, but information on the mechanisms involved was sparse. Since heart failure is the most important incident in the chain of events leading to death after a heart attack, the researchers hypothesized that it might contribute to the observed educational disparities in survival.
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3-D Printed iIndustry
3-D printed organ transplants have been in the cards for a while, but deep tissue printing has proved problematic. Now a team of scientists in Korea think they have cracked the code for producing functional liver tissue by printing functional mouse liver cells.
Simply put, we need more livers than we currently have as hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer are increasingly prevalent. The donor system, meanwhile, is inherently flawed.
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The Columbian
Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs.
That transplant lasted a remarkable four decades — and now Hudson’s recovery from a second one, this time faster and surrounded by germy visitors, showcases how far organ transplants have come and the hurdles that still await.
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ABC News
Scott Overstone's son Tom was just 17 years old when a head injury sustained at the 2007 Laneway Festival left him on life support at Royal Perth Hospital.
Tom's friends did not see what happened, and his injury was not as a result of violence.
"At 1 a.m. we got a phone call and your life changes there and then," his father told 720 ABC Perth.
Tom died a week later in hospital — and his parents had to make the decision whether to donate his organs or not.
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PR Newswire
Researchers presented findings at the 68th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting that DNA found circulating in the bloodstream — known as cell-free DNA — can be used to identify liver transplant patients with acute rejection with greater accuracy than conventional liver function tests. This cell-free DNA test could help liver transplant patients receive crucial treatment for rejection faster, and has the potential to improve the prognosis of kidney and heart transplant patients as well.
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By Christina Thielst
 Traditional electronic health records are designed around the care delivered during encounters with individual patients. However, incentives for improved outcomes, value, and expectations of those paying the bills, including patients and taxpayers, require more efficient and effective care processes and decision-making. These factors are driving a shift in the healthcare delivery system and the way we think about care processes.
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