National Organ Transplants: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, April 2, 1987 |
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ANTHONY aphoresis donors appropriate awarded BLILEY Blood Center bone marrow donor bone marrow registry bone marrow transplant BRUCE centers and transplant Chairman clinical committee contract coordinating center cost criteria developed donor centers donor organs Federal fiscal year 1987 Force on Organ funding HARTZMAN HCFA Health and Human heart transplant Hemodialysis Human Services immunosuppressive drugs implement James Wyngaarden kidney transplants legislation leukemia marrow donor registry matched donors Medicare million national bone marrow National Organ Transplant national registry Navy Bone Marrow OBRA operation OPO's OPTN organ donation organ procurement agencies organ procurement organizations Organ Sharing Organ Transplant Act panel patients Prednisone procedures Procurement and Transplant recipients recommendations renal scientific registry Senator GORE sibling subcommittee SUNDWALL Task Force testimony Thank tion trans transplant centers Transplant Coordinators Transplant Network transplant programs unrelated bone marrow unrelated donors user fees WALGREN WAXMAN WYNGAARDEN
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