The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to ...

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As of end-2024, kidney patients on the transplant waiting list had to wait an average of nine years to get a new organ.

There are an estimated 100,000 people waiting for a life-saving transplant across the country, including some 20,000 in ...

On the day Karen Duncan died, she arranged to take a limousine to hospital with her two adult daughters, her friends and her ...

Surgeons at Duke University have resuscitated a 'dead' heart on the operating table after it stopped beating for more than five minutes. The organ was later transplanted into the chest of a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - August is national multi-ethnic donor awareness month, and Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) recognizes the gap between the need for organ transplants and the supply of ...

Four adults developed breast cancer after receiving vital organs from a donor. Four adults in the United Kingdom developed breast cancer after receiving vital organs from a single donor -- three of ...

The father of two was a veteran who died in a car crash in 2017. Now, his legacy will be honored on a national stage.

Organ transplants will be a national agenda, with the National Transplant Resource Centre as the central command body, to ...