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• Global Ethics Debate Intensifies Over Fair Donor Heart Allocation as Waitlist Deaths Rise to 15 Percent

  Published: Apr 27, 2026

  Section: Medical News

  Medical experts at the ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting addressed the critical shortage of donor hearts, where annual demand continues to outpace the roughly 7,000 transplants performed w...

• Global Surgeons Confront Heart Organ Scarcity as Mortality Rates Hit 15 Percent on Transplant Waitlists

  Published: Apr 25, 2026

  Section: Medical News

  At the 46th ISHLT Annual Meeting, medical experts analyzed the ethical and logistical frameworks used by 24 countries to allocate a critically limited supply of donor hearts. With...

• Pediatric Lung Transplants Set to Decline as Medical Breakthroughs Shift Focus to High Complexity Cases

  Published: Apr 22, 2026

  Section: Medical News

  At the ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting, experts revealed that pediatric lung transplant volumes are decreasing globally as new therapies successfully treat conditions like cystic fibrosi...

• Cystic Fibrosis Breakthroughs Reshape Pediatric Care as Lung Transplant Volumes Drop Toward Historic Lows

  Published: Apr 22, 2026

  Section: Health

  The widespread adoption of protein-correcting therapies has drastically reduced the necessity for lung transplants among children with cystic fibrosis, according to findings presen...