Aging is far more complex than just an advancing clock. It's a tangled web of molecular changes that don’t play by linear rules. Recent studies reveal that the risk of diseases – like cardiovascular ...

Inequities in access to transplant are in part due to the nature and organization of the selection process. The limited organ supply and rising incidence of end-stage organ disease have resulted in a ...

More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ transplant. But only slightly more than half of them are expected to receive an organ within five years. Now, a congressional ...

The organ transplant system in the United States is getting a major overhaul, health officials announced Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services promised to reform the nation's organ ...

I have been a transplant surgeon since 2019, but my journey with the transplant system began at the age of 2, when I was diagnosed with a progressive liver condition. With very few organs available ...

The Biden administration announced a plan to modernize how patients are matched to organs, seeking to shorten wait times, address racial inequities and reduce deaths. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON ...

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for ...