This inspiring story of a retired teacher explains the life-saving importance of organ donation, a powerful act that offers ...

I see the devastating impact of this inequity every day. The need for organ donation is great: More than 100,000 people across the U.S. are waiting for a transplant, including nearly 3,000 Ohioans ...

There’s no going back in a face transplant, no putting the old organ back in and trying again next week with something else. Failure is quite simply catastrophic.

Together, we can solve one of the biggest challenges we face: organ non-utilization. We owe it to more than 100,000 Americans on the transplant waitlist to keep collaborating until we get it right.

Journal Editorial Report: Medicare's "negotiation" with pharmaceutical companies will slow the development of new cures. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark Kelly We told you recently about organ ...

If an organ is recovered but not transplanted, these agencies — a network of 58 nonprofit groups known as organ procurement organizations, or OPOs — may not be paid.

Velocardiofacial syndrome, (VCFS, coming from the Latin words velum for palate, cardia for heart and facies for face) is a very common congenital syndrome, affecting up to 1 in every 2,000 newborns.

Chelsea’s face and body were severely disfigured in a 2013 crash outside his California home. “I was used to what I had even though my face looked a mess, I was used to it,” he recalled.

That is part of why in 2018, I joined the African American Advisory Council at Lifeline of Ohio, the local organ recovery organization in Columbus, where I helped build advocacy and understanding ...

But face and hand transplants are not life-saving. So determining success will be more subjective, and may include factors such as aesthetics and how well the patient can smile or grasp a pen.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Forty thousand organ transplants are done every year in the U.S. This is the story of how one man's face may be responsible for hundreds of those lives saved.

The size of the organ trafficking market is pure guesswork. How much is fueled by kidnapped migrants is even tougher to pinpoint, though, like sex trafficking, migrants likely account for only a ...