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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thomas Engels is the administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Organ donation can be a profound last gift of ...

An HHS agency has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to improve national monitoring and to reopen an investigation into a Louisville, Ky.-based organ procurement organization.

(NewsNation) — Lawmakers are looking to reform the organ donor system after a government investigation revealed “disturbing practices” at a nonprofit in Kentucky. A probe into Louisville-based Network ...

Earlier this month, the secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, highlighted that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the United States who face death from organ failure and that ...

(The Center Square) – The Department of Health and Human Services plans to overhaul an organ transplant system after an investigation found what federal officials called "disturbing practices." HHS ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a move to decertify an organ procurement organization and steps to reform the ...

In today’s mostly plague- and famine-free world, if you can avoid more modern scourges like gun and car violence, you can expect your death to arrive not with a bang but a whimper; when one of your ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it is moving to shut down a major organ procurement organization amid actions to reform the nation’s organ transplant system. The HHS ...

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