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Pediatric donor hearts are in short supply, especially for infants and small children, because few children die in situations where organs can be donated. Matching requires consideration of several factors, …

There has never been a safer time to donate a kidney. The risk of death for people who donate kidneys has fallen by more than half over the past decade, …

Left to right: Ardis Doorenbos (UIC), Stephen Green (Rush), Mark Lockwood (UIC), Lisa Tussing Humphreys (UIC), Beatriz Peñalbel Bernabe (UIC). (Photo by Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois at Chicago) An interdisciplinary …

a A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a large-scale experiment: They wanted to see whether financial incentives and penalties would improve care for patients …

The number and amount of donations are influenced by emotional and contextual cues from disease relief projects on fundraising websites. Image and text data from 1,763 projects were evaluated to …

Lung transplant rates for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the United States have fallen dramatically since the approval of Trikafta (elexacaftar/tezacaftar/ivacaftar), according to a study. However, nearly half of patients …

When patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) undergo stem cell transplantation, gene activity related to immune function normalizes for up to 4.5 years after transplant. this is, Phase 2/3 SCOT study …

Every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma (cancer of the blood, bone marrow, and lymph nodes). Treating blood cancers often requires stem …

1 Introduction Kidney transplantation from a living donor is the treatment of choice for end-stage kidney disease, and currently represents 40% of all kidney transplantations (Hanson et al., 2019). To …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to examine differences in lung transplant outcomes from organs retrieved from two types …