A car crash destroyed Katherine Screws’ small intestine, leaving her unable to eat, dependent on IV nutrition and often too sick to get out of bed. But the Phoenix woman clung to her hospital’s prediction that she could get an…
A car crash destroyed Katherine Screws’ small intestine, leaving her unable to eat, dependent on IV nutrition and often too sick to get out of bed. But the Phoenix woman clung to her hospital’s prediction that she could get an…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year. New criteria will score the organizations on donation and transplantation rates and will decertify the…
It's not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room. Unlike in many areas of medicine, experts say there's... To Up Your Chances of an Organ Transplant, Know the System…
The process included a gala featuring medical students doing aerial yoga and singing Taylor Swift to donors’ families. In some way, it was absolutely perfect When my mother, Erin O’Connell, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer in late…
Families caring for someone on the liver transplant waiting list now have a measurable goal to discuss with the care team. In a study published October 21 in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, transplant candidates who improved their frailty score by at…
VALHALLA, N.Y. (Westchester County) — U.S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., announced bipartisan legislation Thursday aimed at making it easier for Americans to register as organ donors through federal and state applications while improving coordination between organ…
Much of the plan focuses on barriers to entry in dialysis care, which treats nearly 558,000 Americans. While dialysis can be performed at home, most patients receive treatment at specialized facilities, which must comply with federal certification requirements governing equipment, staffing,…
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in Texas on Tuesday to announce a new national kidney care plan. Kennedy launched the national plan with a focus on three priorities: Preventing kidney failure, improving dialysis care and reforming kidney transplantation. "(The)…
NEW YORK – The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in Midtown Manhattan hosted a fascinating discussion, ‘When Bodies Become Markets: The Ethics of Organ Sales’ with Jeffrey Kahn and Mario Macis, on October 19 as part of the 7 Stories Up at SNFL…
Problems in the transplant system: organ procurement failures, brain-death controversies, organ trafficking and reforms of the US transplant network.
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