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Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act to coordinate the allocation of organs in 1984. UNOS was incorporated in March of that year and received its initial contract in 1986.
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Drs. Ulrich Sigwart and Jacques Puel implanted the first coronary stent in a human at a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland
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The FDA approves the first targeted cancer therapy, imatinib or Gleevec, in 2001 for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
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The law provides consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level.