He says that more than 20 years ago, when he began his career, the system wasn’t as equitable as it is today, for several reasons. Since the late 1970s, computer algorithms have matched organ donors ...

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 ...

Inequities in access to transplant are in part due to the nature and organization of the selection process. The limited organ supply and rising incidence of end-stage organ disease have resulted in a ...

Share on Pinterest The biological age of individual organs may be a good predictor of disease risk, a new study suggests. Image credit: LumiNola/Getty Images. Chronological age refers to how many ...

Below is a graph showing a trend that exploded during the 2020s: What is this depicting? Compute use for AI? Crispr gene edits per year? No, this is another, much less-known example of massive growth ...

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 ...