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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."

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…

In a story that has gained international attention, a Tampa blind date set up by Tinder has helped saved a life.

The daughter of Tampa police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1998 is enlisting support from her deceased father’s colleagues in her quest…

MIAMI — A 3-year-old boy is recovering at a Miami hospital after undergoing a five-organ transplant.Adonis Ortiz underwent the multivisceral transplant in…