NEW YORK-The Internet health website Medscape.com has launched a specialty website dealing with transplantation.
Medscape Transplantation, at http://transplantation.medscape.com, has "the nation's first Internet-based continuing medical education program on organ donation for health care professionals and the general public sponsored jointly with Tufts University School of Medicine and the United Network for Organ Sharing," Medscape said in a statement.
The 15-member editorial board of Medscape Transplantation includes the president of the International Liver Transplantation Society and the presidents and presidents-elect of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation.
"There is a critical need among physicians, allied health professionals, and consumers to learn more about the latest advances in transplantation and to seek solutions to the challenge of finding suitable organ donors....We hope that the launch of our new specialty site, as well as our affiliation with Tufts and UNOS, will add much to the practice of medicine as it relates to transplantation and organ donation," said George D. Lundberg, MD, Medscape's editor in chief.
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