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When she tripped outside her home, fell and cut open her face, Jean Paslawsky had no idea the fall “happened for a reason.” For the Tamaqua woman, a 1975 graduate of Marian Catholic High School, that ...

As UPMC officials in Williamsport raised a flag signifying April as Donate to Life through organ donations, Shaun McQuay, of Montgomery, said he had goosebump

Patients with NASH who received livers from older donors were at higher risk for all-cause mortality, especially due to infection, according to a new study.

Matthew J. O'Connor, MD, is a board-certified attending cardiologist in the Cardiac Center and the Medical Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Program

Inclusion of race variables is inaccurate to a large degree, and also contributes to disparities in access to care. >> reporter: historically, black patients have had to wait longer for kidney transplants than other races, in part because of an outdated test that overestimated kidney function in african americans. the nations transplant system is now banning that test and instructing every kidney transplant program to credit affected black patients with time. black people are four times more lik...

Advanced heart failure patients who receive an LVAD at a center without a transplant program may be less apt to receive a heart transplant.

'It shows how Tampa General, year after year, has been meeting the need for these patients.'

With expansions in both the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valleys, the Smidt Heart Institute’s Cardiac Surgery Department brings complex, coordinated care to more patients

Oct 30, 2022 - The Social Security Fund (CSS), reacted on Saturday, after learning that the director of the Panamanian Transplant Organization, César Cuero, reported

Similar short-term clinical outcomes were achieved with hearts donated after circulatory death to those after brain death, and these could potentially increase the donor pool by 30%.