More than 60 research hospitals — including Duke, Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco — could soon lose access to organ screening and quick transportation arrangements for ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond-based non-profit, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has had a monopoly on organ transplants for nearly 40 years. But that will change soon as bipartisan ...

Richmond-based UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, will begin seeking a new chief executive at the end of September, the nonprofit announced Tuesday. CEO Brian Shepard will leave after nearly ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — An organ transplant screening company has now withdrawn its federal lawsuit against Richmond-based non-profit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), after UNOS previously ...

It's the latest scrutiny of the nation's organ transplant system. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has launched a bipartisan investigation into the U.S. organ transplant system – the latest ...

Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC., Nov. 4, 2011. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) (Nov. 4, 2011) Senior health experts have called for the federal government ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Four years after a major revision of the U.S. heart transplant allocation rules, deliberations are again underway on how to curb gaming of the United Network for Organ Sharing ...

Last year, surgeons across the U.S. transplanted nearly 43,000 organs into the bodies of sick patients. It was the most organs ever transplanted in one year, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A data breach at Richmond-based UNOS, the organ sharing network, has exposed up to 1.2 million patient records. In a statement, UNOS said the breach occurred during two software tests ...

Organs from patients who died more than 60 min after the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (LST) are generally considered unsuitable for transplantation because warm ischemia impairs organ ...