Patchwork state policies and limited federal oversight have led to a fragmented system for tracking organ donor status.

UAB researchers discover that the immune system consistently targets the same region of mismatched HLA proteins after organ ...

Inequities in access to transplant are in part due to the nature and organization of the selection process. The limited organ supply and rising incidence of end-stage organ disease have resulted in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Thomas Engels says the agency is undertaking a sweeping overhaul of the ...

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The U.S. is developing new safeguards for the organ transplant system after a government investigation found a Kentucky group continued preparations for organ donation by some patients who showed ...

I am a Black woman who has been waiting for seven years for a kidney transplant. The organ procurement system has failed me — apparently by design. In December 2021, a federal judge ordered that ...

The five vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Other organs include the gallbladder, pancreas, and stomach. Organ systems, such as the nervous system, support ...

In the United States, about 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. Patients sometimes wait years for a match. Many others, disproportionately those of color, never even get placed on ...

Families in need of lifesaving organs have had to trust an organ transplantation system that has failed many, alleged Barry Friedman, executive director of the AdventHealth Transplant Institute, in a ...

April is National Donate Life Month and Thursday, Singing River Health System partnered with the Mississippi Organ Recovery ...