A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants.

A new perspective paper about organ shortage policy priorities authored by Physicians Committee scientists was just published. It discusses alternative strategies to combat the global organ shortage ...

The U.S. organ transplant system is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on an AI-driven algorithm framework, which launched March 9. This framework, known as continuous ...

CMS pitches stricter oversight of organ procurement groups to improve safety, accountability, and organ utilization in the ...

SAN ANTONIO – KSAT Community is hosting a town hall to address the trend of people opting out of organ donation, what it ...

The heart wants what the heart wants … regardless of whose chest it beats within. Recent research has found further correlation between organ transplant surgery and personality changes. In a study ...

When Cindy Zbin learned she couldn’t donate part of her liver to her ailing husband, Dave, she was heartbroken. Luckily, he received a transplant from a deceased donor, saving his life. Just weeks ...

There are more than 100,000 people in the United States waiting for an organ transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, known as UNOS. "I was born Type 1 diabetic," said Patrick ...

Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine, Kidney Transplantation & Nephrology), Erasmus University Medical Center These reports and cases are part of a global proliferation of the organ trade that ...

When you drive past Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts, you might think it's an old city building. But it was built by a very wealthy local man just to house one spectacular ...