Challenges exist in ensuring deceased donor organs are allocated to individuals on the transplant recipient waitlist in a fair, equitable, cost-effective and transparent manner. In response to the ...

For nearly 40 years, organ transplants in the United States have been directed by a single nonprofit called the United Network for Organ Sharing — UNOS. Critics say UNOS has come to be plagued by ...

Families in need of lifesaving organs have had to trust an organ transplantation system that has failed many, alleged Barry Friedman, executive director of the AdventHealth Transplant Institute, in a ...

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The most important decisions made in Minnesota’s organ transplant system may not be determined in a hospital or surgeon’s room, but in a sleek office building on Minneapolis’ north side. The ...

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for ...

Patients who spend years on waiting lists are not always the first to get organs, a Times investigation found. A surgical technician prepares instruments during a liver transplant ...

The U.S. organ transplant system is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on an AI-driven algorithm framework, which launched March 9. This framework, known as continuous ...

The US 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 organization ...