Congress demands answers after near-fatal mistakes in organ recovery flag potential systematic failure and threaten faith in ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ ...

A four-year investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration has uncovered systemic ethical and safety ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated reforms of the country’s organ transplant system on Monday after a study of a major organ procurement organization revealed “disturbing ...

More and more hospitals are declaring patients “brain dead” even though their circulation systems are still functioning.

The federal investigation into a Kentucky organ procurement organization found what it calls "concerning patterns of risk." ...

The U.S. 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 ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die. The methods have been tested on only a small number of people, but they ...

In the 1966 novel Fantastic Journey, by Isaac Asimov, a miniature submarine and crew travel throughout the human circulatory ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method for the recovery of hearts from ...

BACKGROUND: Fontan circulatory failure (FCF) is a chronic state in palliated single ventricle heart disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, including heart failure, multisystem end-organ ...

This built-in backup system means that if one part fails, another often steps in to carry the load — a marvel of nature often overlooked ...