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Article: LifeGift Awarded More Than $1 Million in Federal Grants to Increase Organ Donation.

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September 24, 1999
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HOUSTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In a White House ceremony today, the Division of Transplantation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded LifeGift Organ Donation Center two three-year federal grants totaling more than $1 million. The LifeGift award was part of a three-year nationwide effort to increase organ donation. The first year awards announced today total nearly $5.2 million and the grants are planned to total more than $13 million over the next three years.

"These projects will help us break new ground in organ donation," said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. "Most people support the idea of ...

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