New kidney donation system could change who gets best organs



transplantThe way that donated kidneys are allocated to patients needing transplants  might be changed next year, so that the fittest organs would be given to those  likely to live the longest with the donated organ.

That was the announcement today from the United Network for Organ Sharing  (UNOS), the nonprofit organization that manages organ donations in the U.S.

More than 93,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for a  kidney transplant, and the demand far exceeds the supply.

 

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