Every year, 6,000 people die waiting for a transplant. The U.S. organ transplant system is antiquated – and updating it could save thousands of lives.

Soon after the kidney arrived in Illinois, the multi-organ operation was canceled. Under the transplant system’s rules, LifeGift was supposed to offer the kidney to Marcus.

Paragonix's donor kidney perfusion system completes commercial flight By Conor Hale Mar 3, 2025 12:06pm Paragonix Technologies Organ transplants kidney transplant Devices ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. ... Cleaning up the organ procurement system, which wastes as many as 28,000 organs annually, ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can cause dysfunction in organs well outside the renal system. The skin is one of the organs most commonly affected. CKD is a “chronic inflammatory state, which ...

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig organs prove safe and will alleviate the organ shortage and save lives.

The panelists from the conference — two transplant surgeons and a researcher with the United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit federal contractor that oversees the U.S. transplant system ...