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• 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...

• U.S. Policy Reversing Race-Based Kidney Function Metrics Linked to Thousands of Waitlist Modifications and Increased Black Patient Transplants

  Published: Mar 9, 2026

  Section: Health

  A national study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the 2023 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policy change successfully increased kidney transplant rates...