Dr. Raymond Lynch, head of Health and Human Services' Organ Transplant Branch, is tasked with reforming the system. He has ...

Health and Human Services is instituting sweeping changes after investigation revealed that organs were being procured from ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ ...

A four-year investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration has uncovered systemic ethical and safety ...

America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three federal agencies alleging they failed to honor information requests on ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to begin ...

The Health Resources and Services Administration wants to strengthen national safeguards and monitoring to improve organ donation safety.

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 ...

Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Resources and Services Administration directed ...

The agencies began the review after a 33-year-old patient, TJ Hoover, reported waking up on the operating table while medical staff were preparing his body for an organ harvesting operation. A doctor ...

More and more hospitals are declaring patients “brain dead” even though their circulation systems are still functioning. Organ transplantation has been a lucrative business for hospitals, with a heart ...

A federal report found that an organ procurement organization ignored signs of life in patients when authorizing attempted ...