transplant

The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were.

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.

The operations are expensive, risky and use a scarce resource — donated lungs — that might otherwise go to patients with cystic fibrosis or other diseases.

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."

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

In a dispute between two public-hospital districts, an administrative law judge Wednesday said the South Broward Hospital District should get approval to…