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Complaints, pressure from organ clearinghouse led Jackson to halt adult heart transplants
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year ago‘We have to find out why there is a discrepancy between every other transplant program and heart,’...
The U.S. is modernizing its 39-year-old organ transplant system–just in time for the AI revolution
Fortune via AOL· 7 months agoThe recent signing of The Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act...
A heart transplant saved my son's life. Now, donor network that saved him is under attack.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMy youngest son was dying. He was born with a complex heart defect, and instead of celebrating my...
A death sentence: Native Americans shut out of the nation's liver transplant system
Stacker via AOL· 3 months agoThe Markup investigates why, despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are...
Opinion: A single reform that could save 100,000 lives immediately
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWith end-stage kidney disease, you either die quickly or end up on dialysis. If it's the latter, and...
Millions of Californians are willing to donate organs, but relatively few do. Here's why
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAbout half the U.S. population, including 18 million Californians, are registered organ donors. But...
Inmates could donate organs to get out of prison early in proposed Massachusetts bill
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoNewly proposed legislation in Massachusetts would grant early release to prison inmates who donate...
Letting Inmates Donate Organs for Time Off? Bad Idea
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKeith Bedford/ReutersIn January, two Democratic state representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in...
US investigating organ collection groups for potential fraud
Scripps News via AOL· 3 months agoHands close-up of surgeons holding medical instruments. Organ collection groups in at least five...
Biden administration plans to break up monopoly power of U.S. organ transplant system
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Biden administration on Wednesday announced it aims to overhaul and modernize the organ...