Healthcare Dive

Nearly 20% of donated organs go unused — here’s how we can fix it and honor donors

Editor’s note: Colleen McCarthy is president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, a nonprofit trade organization leading the U.S. organ donation community. She is also the vice ...
The New York Times

The Organ Is Still Working. But It’s Not in a Body Anymore.

Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. By Ted Alcorn On some level, the human liver in the operating room ...
The New York Times

Donated Organs

We explain why some organs are skipping patients who need them. By Brian M. Rosenthal Who gets the kidneys and livers and hearts donated by people who die? For decades, the U.S. government has ...
Los Angeles Times

Millions of Californians are willing to donate organs, but relatively few do. Here’s why

The scene at OneLegacy in Azusa on a recent Friday morning would have been familiar to anyone who’s been in a hospital intensive care unit. Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and ...
CNN

HHS moves to shut down major organ donation group in latest steps to reform nation’s transplant system

As part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s organ transplant system, the US Department of Health and Human Services says it is moving to decertify a major organ procurement organization – ...