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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changingThe U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were.
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He was able to become one of nearly 30 people to receive a double lung transplant at UF Health since the start of the pandemic.
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The operations are expensive, risky and use a scarce resource — donated lungs — that might otherwise go to patients with cystic fibrosis or other diseases.
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The UCHealth hospital system in Colorado says unvaccinated patients won't be eligible for an organ transplant, citing the "significant risk the virus poses to transplant recipients."
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COVID-related transplants are surging as hospitals grapple with a growing subset of patients whose organs are “basically destroyed by the virus,” said Dr. Jonathan Orens at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Following a state administrative judge’s lead, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration issued a pair of final orders this week denying a plan by…
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Blayne Badura thought that he had this kidney disease thing figured out. For two decades, he had worked as a Seminole County Deputy, a job that he loved…
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A woman who received a uterus transplant recently delivered a healthy baby boy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the doctors working on the experiment about its ethics, risk, and cost implications.
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Florida Hospital is gearing up to open a home for transplant patients.The Bartch House at Florida Hospital in Orlando is expected to open soon. It will be…
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In a dispute between two public-hospital districts, an administrative law judge Wednesday said the South Broward Hospital District should get approval to…