In the United States, about 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. Patients sometimes wait years for a match. Many others, disproportionately those of color, never even get ...

As of early last year, 106,000 people in the United States were waiting for an organ such as a kidney, heart, lung, liver or pancreas. About 43,000 transplants took place last year.

Reports show more than 100,000 people, including children, are currently waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. And for some, that wait can last months or even years.

It’s this roving billboard that people can see and start thinking about organ and tissue donation,” Emily McKinley, Tennessee ...

Tennessee has become the fourth U.S. state to place a ban on organ transplants from China, citing human rights abuses. Human rights experts from the United Nations (U.N.) issued a report in 2021 ...

That study followed 198 organ recipients for up to four years, ... But the practice wasn’t allowed in the United States until 2013 when the government lifted a ban and allowed research studies.

Before 17-year-old Cooper Altman completed his junior year at Glen Burnie High School, the Anne Arundel County, Maryland ...