Scientific & Medical

AATB has released a webinar recording, "Physicians Council MTB Working Group- Interim Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Donor Screening Requirements," to further assist with providing additional information regarding the contents of Bulletin 23-6...

In 2020, AATB funded research to determine whether there was detectable SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in the blood of deceased tissue donors. Today, the study results were published in the international journal Cell and Tissue Banking.

In May 2022, clusters of monkeypox cases appeared in several countries where it is not endemic.

Since May 2022, monkeypox cases, which have historically been rare in the United States, have been identified in at least 47 states and territories (CDC).

AATB’s Physicians Council has shared a slide deck from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to assist tissue establishment medical directors in educating their organizations’ staff and addressing vaccine hesitancy.

Previously referred to as 2019-nCoV, the infectious disease caused by the Novel Coronavirus identified in December 2019 has now been assigned the name “COVID-19” by the WHO, to include all forms of the disease from mild to severe.