The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an overhaul of the nation’s organ transplant system Monday amid reports of surgeons attempting to harvest organs from patients who were ...

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A recent operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was potentially the first of its kind in the country — a quadruple organ ...

South Korea is not revising legislation to do away with the requirement for family consent before organ recovery, contrary to ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan is intensifying efforts to raise public awareness of organ donation and improve its transplant system as ...

Three U.S. congressional members from Mississippi issued a letter that encouraged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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But now, scientists have come up with a device that allows organs to be cooled to -4 °C (25 °F) without forming any ice. They’ve tested it with pig organs and shown that kidneys, at least, can be ...

"We couldn't just say that nothing can be done," said one of Elizabeth Wehrle's physicians. At 11, Wehrle was diagnosed with ...