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Learn about a public dashboard that displays real-time status, historical data, and planned enhancements of the OPTN computer system known as UNet.

Learn about a change to the OPTN transplant label distributor and how members can create a new account to order labels the first time they log in.

Learn about data on living donor long-term outcomes, including additional verified deaths among living donors since 1994.

The OPTN announces that updated median MELD at transplant scores are in effect as of March 30. The national median MPaT score has lowered to 33.

Learn about a voluntary recall by Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) for its CD5 Series of Genesis Reusable Rigid Sterilization Container Systems.

A new policy matches lung transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors. It is the first to use an approach known as continuous distribution.

Access an animated video for transplant candidates and their caregivers that explains how the lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) is calculated.

Read a white paper by the OPTN Ethics Committee on ethical issues in information given to potential transplant candidates to support program selection.

Get updated information on a webinar providing education on the OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications.