Issue #14 | October 2025

Welcome to the Science in Donation & Transplant Newsletter!

In this issue:

1. Flawed Organ Allocation Sequence Policy is Costing Lives

2. The Impact of ORGANize’s Fear-Mongering on Patients’ Lives

3. If the Final Rule Stands, Can For-Profit Donation and Transplantation be Averted?

4. Discover SID&T on Your Favorite Social Media Platforms

Flawed Organ Allocation Sequence Policy is Costing Lives

Despite annual lifesaving donation and transplant records being set, in 2025 some donors are removing themselves from registries as sensational stories, often taken out of context, are the new hallmark of media reporting, Congressional hearings and federal regulators on this complex issue. Sadly, this is not just a contemporary tale of …

The Impact of ORGANize’s Fear-Mongering on Patients’ Lives

It’s been almost a year since ORGANize, a venture capital & investment banker backed group that is targeting nonprofit Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), publicly implicated the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliate (now part of Network for Hope) in misconduct, for following a hospital MD’s diagnosis and honoring a family’s decision to donate organs upon his death …

If the Final Rule Stands, Can For-Profit Donation and Transplantation be Averted?

In 1984, with life-saving organ transplantation on the cusp of dramatic growth, Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA). Its architects were determined to create an equitable system. The Task Force on Organ Transplantation urged the source of deceased donor organs should be altruistic, to protect the poor from being preyed upon by the well-off for their organs …

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