But there are more than 8,000 people - more than ever before - currently waiting for an organ donation in the UK. While demand is at an all-time high, the donor consent rate has stagnated.

The AHA commented today on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule that would make changes to the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model beginning July 1. The AHA expressed ...

July 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a reform of the organ-transplant system and threatened to close a major procurement body, after a probe found ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ donation system, after a federal investigation found that one organization ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A Valley tradition is about to resume. The cathedral organ concert series begins January 30 at Saint ...

Organ donation saves lives and enjoys widespread public support. But many people are unsure what they agree to when they sign up. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Supported by By Trinity ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human recipients.

MANHASSET, NY — It was a first-of-its-kind surgery on Long Island, when a Queens man had a successful triple-organ transplant at North Shore University Hospital. It took 14 hours with 13 surgeons ...