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ITNS
The early bird deadline, your last chance to save $100, ends on Monday, September 19th. If you are still unsure of whether or not you should attend, review the Annual Symposium brochure and grid of educational sessions. Save $100 when you register today!
ITNS
The 2017 call for abstracts has been extended to Wednesday, Sept. 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!
ITNS
You can download the Patient Education pamphlets for free on the ITNS website.
ITNS would like to thank the Heart Exchange Support Group from Houston, Texas for their generous contribution to this educational endeavor.
TIME
Dutch lawmakers recently took a step forward on a proposal for a "yes unless" system of organ donation, with the goal of making more organs available for transplant.
If the bill becomes a law, it would make everyone in the Netherlands an automatic organ donor unless they request not to be, Dutch News reported.
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Gulf News
A law allowing organ transplantation from living people and the deceased was passed, providing huge relief to patients on organ donation waiting lists across the country.
The organ transplant law decreed by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan last month will take effect from March, six months after publishing in the official gazette.
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STAT
He was watching TV in bed when he got the call. It was the transplant team at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. They had a kidney for him, from a donor who had just overdosed in a New York deli. Did he want it?
Brian wasn't in great shape. His failing kidney made him exhausted, he had no appetite, he would soon need dialysis, and he'd been diagnosed with hepatitis C, probably contracted decades before, when he was addicted to heroin and cocaine. But that didn't mean he was ready to take just any old organ. "I'm not about to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire," he told STAT. "I won't take one from someone who was shooting dope or selling sex."
This dilemma has become surprisingly common for transplant patients, as the nation's opioid epidemic yields a tragic surge in organ donors. And surgeons themselves face a quandary: How much of the overdose victim's story should they reveal to desperate transplant candidates?
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By Keith Carlson
 Workplace culture is regularly discussed as an important concept in the world of 21st-century corporate life. However, we can sometimes feel most organizations — including those in healthcare, medicine and nursing — are paying lip service to the idea. Nurse leaders are at the forefront of the profession, and they are in a position to take decisive and inspired action toward making positive workplace culture a reality, not just a buzzword.
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KYW-FM
There is new hope for people needing organ transplants. Breakthrough new research, happening right here in Philadelphia, has found a way to use organs that are typically considered not suitable for transplant.
Researchers at Penn have found a way around that, and they are introducing their first success story.
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CT Post
Yale New Haven Hospital has received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to became 1 of 8 transplant centers in the United States to receive permission to use organs from HIV-positive donors. Yale joins only five other hospitals who have received this approval. Following the passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act of 2013 and more recent approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing, a multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins Medicine traveled to Yale New Haven Hospital on March 19, and performed the first-ever HIV-to-HIV liver transplant and first-ever HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant in the United States.
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WCVB-TV
A local company has created a high-tech upgrade for organ transplants, and doctors believe it could help save more lives as the use grows.
The portable device, named OCS, or Organ Care System, is made by TransMedics in Andover.
OCS doctors keep a donated liver operating and functioning just like it is in the body, rather than the traditional process of putting it on ice once it is removed.
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