Health and Human Services officials are planning to overhaul organ transplant systems in the U.S. The agency is taking this action in response to an investigation that discovered cases of organ ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated reforms of the country’s organ transplant system on Monday after a study of a major organ procurement organization revealed “disturbing ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

Organ donation groups accused of safety lapses are facing multiple investigations, and new policies are underway to protect patients. By Brian M. Rosenthal The federal government is cracking down on ...

A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants. By Brian M. Rosenthal For years, the ...