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 ...

An HHS agency has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to improve national monitoring and to reopen an investigation into a Louisville, Ky.-based organ procurement organization.

The updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine ...

The organ transplant system in the United States is getting a major overhaul, health officials announced Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services promised to reform the nation's organ ...

The organ transplant system in the United States is getting a major overhaul, health officials announced Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services promised to reform the nation's organ ...

(CNN) -- The US government announced a plan Wednesday to overhaul the country's organ transplant system. The US Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration ...

For the first time, the national Organ Procurement and Transplant Network may be opened up to organizations other than the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing. The system has only ever been ...

WASHINGTON – 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 ...

The editorial “The organ transplant system needs fixing” (Aug. 13) misses an opportunity to explain to the public the complexities of the organ transplantation system and meaningful actions for ...

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 ...