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Article: U.S. Government Plans Organ Donor Card.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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2001 MAY 7 - (NewsRx Network) -- In a major effort to increase organ donation, U.S. federal officials are devising a national organ donor card that they hope will make clear potential donors' wishes.
The idea is to give transplant coordinators a stronger case for proceeding with donation, regardless of a family's permission, by making the donor cards legal documents that carry more weight than a driver's license or unofficial donor card.
It is one element of a plan that Tommy Thompson, secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, was expected to make public during April 2001, an agency official said.
It also is likely to involve a ...