Today, more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ transplant. They’re seeking kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs — organs from human donors that could give these patients a ...

A new open-access portal allows online users to explore human organs – such as the brain, heart, lungs, kidney and liver – in unprecedented detail. The Human Organ Atlas (HOA) is a repository of ...

When Raven Kinser walked into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office two summers ago, she completed a driver's license application that included the option to register as an organ donor. The ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. The grieving family members have left the ...

Many organs play important roles, but not all of them are required for survival. Some are removed because of injury, and others because of disease. In certain cases, doctors take them out to prevent ...

The Organ Transport Box in RE 9 is a sort of puzzle box with complicated instructions to open. Inside are the Artificial Lungs needed to unlock the ID Wristband Level 2. You will need the ID Wristband ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost ...

At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their antlers regenerate is lifting the lid on the unseen ways that our bodies work, too ...

An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved legislation that could subject medical examiners to prison time if they harvest a deceased person’s organs without first notifying and obtaining consent ...

Federal regulators have tapped a Las Vegas-based group to oversee organ recovery in South Florida. Marsha Halper MIAMI HERALD file A Miami-based nonprofit that recovers organs for transplantation was ...

The House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee held a hearing on December 2 as part of its investigation into the questionable activities of organ procurement organizations (OPOs), the tax-exempt, ...