The National Kidney Registry and Zabell & Associates announced today the favorable resolution of a lawsuit, funded by the National Kidney Registry, in support of a Good Samaritan donor, involving unlawful discrimination and workplace retaliation. The donor initiated a chain of transplants, organized by the National Kidney Registry, by donating her kidney to a stranger …
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One Lambda and NKR Introduce The Toolbox to Help Hardest-to-Match Patients Shorten Wait Time for Transplants
One Lambda, Inc., the leader in antibody detection products, and the National Kidney Registry announced the introduction of The Toolbox, a new innovative web module. The Toolbox is designed to help medical professionals make intelligent decisions on donor selection based on antibody profiles of patients. At the same time, The Toolbox will help medical professionals …
NKR Doubles KPD Matches, Announces Results of Major Software Enhancement
Today, the National Kidney Registry (NKR) announced the results of a major upgrade to its matching system that is increasing the number of matches found for kidney transplant patients with incompatible donors. The software upgrade has extended the NKR’s matching capability from two-deep loops and 12-deep chains to 20-deep loops and 20-deep chains. Early results …
NKR Introduces GPS Tracking Technology for Shipped Kidneys
BrickHouse Security, a leading provider of security and surveillance products to businesses and consumers, today announced that, in partnership with the National Kidney Registry (NKR), they have implemented the first real-time GPS tracking system for the shipment of living donor organs. The National Kidney Registry is the leader in facilitating paired exchange kidney transplants and …
First Valentine’s Day Donor Chain
On Valentine’s Day, one of the nation’s first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains was initiated by New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute. The innovative approach—a NEAD (never-ending altruistic donor) chain—may dramatically improve the opportunity for patients in need of kidney transplants to find a compatible donor and potentially …
National Kidney Registry Launches Kidney Matching System
Last night, at the New York Academy of Medicine, Garet Hil, Founder and CEO of the National Kidney Registry, announced the completion of the first release of Best Match, the NKR’s state-of-the-art kidney matching system. The announcement was made at a gathering of transplant professionals. According to Hil, the software integrates a full featured web-based …