Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system
comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health
Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine.S. An estimated 33 million Americans suffer
from OAB, with symptoms of urge urinary incontinence, urgency and
urinary frequency." Nearly 27,000 people in the U.

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Sixteen Hospitals Throughout Region Receive National Recognition for National Breakthrough Collaborative on Organ Donation

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And, by expanding criteria and
allowing older people to donate kidneys, the number of transplants performed
at Wake Forest Baptist has more than doubled in the last few years. PHILADELPHIA, Sixteen area hospitals, in
collaboration with Gift of Life Donor Program, the region's nonprofit organ
procurement organization, were recently awarded Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) Medals of Honors or Certificates of Merit for outstanding
rates of organ donation, the most of any region in the United States. Nathan, President and CEO of Gift of Life Donor Program.

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(1) Another 2,013 were heart transplants , 602 were pancreas
or islet cell transplants and 880 were kidney/pancreas transplants., an affiliated company, offers Cyclosporine
Soft-Gel Capsules and Oral Solution. "Nationally last year, there were more than 7,100
deceased donors, up from about 6,000 in previous years, an 11% increase,"
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life-saving organ transplant in 2004, a new national record.

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example, PLIVA, Inc. For the last 32
years, Gift of Life Donor Program has served as the link between donors and
patients awaiting life-saving transplants, coordinating over 22,000 vital
organ transplants and tens of thousands of tissue transplants.

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, 22,141 (82%) were of kidneys
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nervous system., headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, is now a global
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"We are matching based on age, weight, and kidney function., a subsidiary of PLIVA, d.S.

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Stratta and his group have been using expanded criteria donors (ECDs) --
donors who are over 60 years of age or donors over age 50 with various
pre-existing conditions -- with promising results.
Custodiol offers several important advantages over other available
products.
Adding to its ease of handling, Custodiol is packaged in 4 sizes --
500-mL bottles , 1000-mL bottles, 2000-mL bags, and 5000-mL bags -- for
greater convenience. Donors recovered in the U. The medal also honored
hospitals who demonstrated exemplary leadership and commitment to organ
donors, donor families, and the nearly 88,000 patients on the national
transplant waiting list.
"Locally, Gift of Life Donor Program experienced a 13% increase in the number
of donors from 2003 to 2004, resulting in more lives being saved through
donation and transplantation. Gift of Life
Donor Program, one of the oldest of the 58 donor programs in the U.

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"This new indication for Custodiol also demonstrates the
commitment that Odyssey has made to the field of transplantation .com

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Odyssey Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The company recently launched SANCTURA (TM), a
prescription medicine that is indicated for the treatment of
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In about a four-year period, Stratta and his team performed 244 kidney
transplants from deceased donors into adult recipients. A total of 101 (41
percent) of these kidneys were from ECDs; many of these kidneys were refused
by other transplant centers and targeted for discard.S.

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Exchange in 1996, PLIVA has established a fully internationalized
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WINSTON-SALEM, N., director of transplantation at
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. An older donor
kidney has less capacity and someone waiting for a kidney who is older and
weighs less doesn't need as much capacity," Stratta said.
This makes the pancreas the fourth most commonly transplanted solid
organ.

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Gift of Life Donor Program is a nonprofit organ procurement organization
that coordinates organ and tissue donation and transplantation in the eastern
half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.

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, Amidst the observance of
National Kidney Month, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
researcher says there is much to celebrate in light of recent major strides in
increasing the number of potential kidney donors. Stratta's figures show
similar four-year patient and kidney graft survival rates between ECD kidneys
and standard-criteria (younger-donor) kidneys. Only three percent of hospitals across the country
have been identified to receive this award.org.

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announced that the FDA has approved an
additional indication for the use of Custodiol(R)* HTK Solution for
the perfusion and flushing of donor pancreata.
According to statistics compiled by The Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network, during 2004, of the 26,998 organs
transplanted from all donors in the U. Custodiol requires no additives, filtering, or
premixing, and it can be stored over a wider range of temperatures (2
degrees C - 15 degrees C (35 degrees F - 59 degrees F)). The low
viscosity of Custodiol -- similar to water -- and its clear appearance
make for easier handling for both the perfusionist and the surgeon .OdysseyPharm.d.S.asp

*CUSTODIOL is a registered trademark of Dr. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the First Annual Organ
Donation Breakthrough Collaborative National Learning Congress on May 18-19 in
Pittsburgh, were conferred to hospitals for achieving life-saving organ
donation rates of 75% or higher for a 12-month period.

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Critical factors in success
include matching donors to recipients based on body size, selecting low-risk
patients, using sophisticated organ preservation methods, and treating
patients with drugs designed to reduce rejection rates and minimize kidney
damage.

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This special recognition is part of the National Organ Donation
Breakthrough Collaborative, a nationwide initiative launched in 2003 to save
and enhance thousands of lives a year by spreading known best practices to the
nation's largest hospitals and to achieve organ donation rates of 75% or
higher in these hospitals.

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In addition, a dedicated team of
Odyssey/PLIVA Transplant Specialists presents these products to the
medical community," added Allan Weber, senior director, sales and
marketing at Odyssey. Available at:
http://www. Hershey Medical Center
Shore Memorial Hospital
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News + World Report. Custodiol requires no flushing of the organ prior to
transplantation . Franz Kohler Chemie
GmbH, Alsbach-Hahnlein, Germany.
The local hospitals which received the DHHS Medal of Honor include:

Abington Memorial Hospital
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center
Christiana Hospital (HHS/HRSA certificate of merit recipient)
Community Medical Center
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
Frankford Hospital-Torresdale
Geisinger Medical Center
Hahnemann University Hospital
Lancaster General Hospital
Lankenau Hospital
Lehigh Valley Hospital
Penn State Milton S.

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, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe . by donor type.optn. In our region,
area hospitals demonstrated their commitment to the goals of the collaborative
and in partnership with Gift of Life Donor Program, helped to coordinate 1,134
life-saving organs for transplant from 387 individuals.

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"National Kidney Month is the perfect time to highlight the need for organ
donors and advances that make it possible for more people - including older
adults - to give and to receive the gift of life through kidney
transplantation," said Robert Stratta, M.

Custodiol HTK Solution
has already been approved for use in the perfusion and flushing of
other key donor organs -- livers , kidneys and hearts.
"With this new indication, Custodiol makes an excellent single
product choice for the large majority of transplant procedures
involving pancreata, hearts, kidneys, and livers ," said Wayne Yetter,
President and CEO of Odyssey. For more information, visit www., is the
primary source of information regarding organ and tissue donation and
transplantation in the tri-state area .

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People age 50 and older now account for about half of the 65,540 people in
the United States awaiting a kidney transplant. The system
comprises 1,187 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care
beds and is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U. Custodiol (R) now
presents with indications for the vast majority of organ transplants
in the United States - both abdominal and thoracic organs - an
important consideration for transplant specialists.

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d.S . For more information, please call Gift
of Life Donor Program at 1-800-DONORS-1, or visit the Web site at
http://www.

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