Atrium Health’s heart transplant team could potentially double its number of patients thanks to a new technology that keeps a heart beating outside the body, doctors on the team said at a news ...

In December 1997, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report, Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement. This report presented the findings and ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost ...

A growing form of donation is expanding the organ supply in the US — and testing how medicine protects dying patients.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...