Minorities comprised 32% of deceased and living donors and 46% of organ transplant recipients in 2019, Shuck said. States have their own individual registries of organ donors. There's also the ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a new way of predicting whether a kidney donor and recipient are ...

Organ donor recipient doing well 2 years after transplant Mark Lott received a kidney from Heather Bryant in 2022 In 2023, nearly 7,000 transplants were made by living organ donors.

Organ donation is a life-saving act that requires meticulous procedures, from medical evaluation to respectful surgical ...

The United Network of Organ Sharing has proposed setting up a national paired donor... Computer program could match kidney donor-recipient pairs Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

NEW HAVEN >> If you have kidney or liver disease, you may be shy about letting people know you need a transplant. Don’t be. For some potential donors, it just might take a nudge to make the ...

In one study, researchers analyzed data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) involving more than 108,188 deceased-donor kidney transplants between 1995 and 2008.

Rodebaugh was an organ donor and also a potential match for an experimental surgery nearly 15 years in the making, an unprecedented procedure to give Pat Hardison a new face.

It's possible to create "universal" donor organs that would eliminate the need to match transplant donor and recipient blood types, researchers report. "With the current matching system, wait ...

A successful kidney transplant at Stony Brook University Hospital gives a Long Island man a new lease on life after years of ...

She’s our little hero,” the father of an organ donor said. “That knowledge that she has gone out and helped other people is such a comfort to us, we take much pride in it. Skip to content ...

But a significant reason is not so obscure: Because the immune system markers used to match organ donors and recipients are inherited, minorities are more likely to match with someone with their ...