One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...
Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in ...
Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.
Etan Yeshua is a registered nurse in the intensive care unit of an East Coast hospital. For decades, I have encouraged friends and family to register as organ donors. As an intensive care nurse, I’ve ...
Being from Hawai’i, I’ve seen firsthand how geographic location contributes to inequities in the organ transplant system. For example, over the past eight years, 604 kidneys were donated locally in ...
At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their antlers regenerate is lifting the lid on the unseen ways that our bodies work, too ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government proposed new rules for the nation’s transplant system Wednesday that aim to increase use of less-than-perfect organs and set additional safety standards for donor ...
House lawmakers are launching a congressional investigation into two major hospital systems amid allegations they allowed wealthy foreign patients to bypass U.S. organ transplant waiting lists, as ...
An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved legislation that could subject medical examiners to prison time if they harvest a deceased person’s organs without first notifying and obtaining consent ...
Federal regulators have tapped a Las Vegas-based group to oversee organ recovery in South Florida. Marsha Halper MIAMI HERALD file A Miami-based nonprofit that recovers organs for transplantation was ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — The Church of the Epiphany’s new pipe organ was hand-built in Utah before being delivered by a semitrailer to the church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. NEW YORK (RNS) — The organ ...
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