Donor heart recipients and their doctors may soon have as much as double the standard amount of time to complete life-saving surgeries thanks to a new device dubbed HOPE. An extended time period not ...

The less time an organ spends out of the body, the more likely a transplant is to be successful. Current regulations can add a lot of extra time to organ transportation. Advocates hope targeted rule ...

Congress is currently considering ways to further improve the nation’s organ donation and transplant system, and one of the easiest fixes is to update the regulations that govern how vital organs are ...

When a human heart was left behind by mistake on a Southwest Airlines plane in 2018, transplant officials downplayed the incident. They emphasized that the organ was used for valves and tissues, not ...

A Manhattan helicopter company known for carting elite New Yorkers to the Hamptons reported growing revenue in a recent call with investors, thanks largely to its organ transportation business. Blade ...

This article was originally published on KFF Health News. What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations? Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to ...

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