Dr. Raymond Lynch, head of Health and Human Services' Organ Transplant Branch, is tasked with reforming the system. He has ...

Health and Human Services is instituting sweeping changes after investigation revealed that organs were being procured from ...

Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Resources and Services Administration directed ...

“Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this ...

A four-year investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration has uncovered systemic ethical and safety ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to begin ...

The Health Resources and Services Administration wants to strengthen national safeguards and monitoring to improve organ donation safety.

Organ Transplant chief, HHS Dr. Raymond Lynch discusses Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s call for organ donation reform on 'America's ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated reforms of the country’s organ transplant system on Monday after a study of a major organ procurement organization revealed “disturbing ...

The latest CMS performance assessment shows progress, but looming penalties have sparked debate over fairness and readiness.

More and more hospitals are declaring patients “brain dead” even though their circulation systems are still functioning. Organ transplantation has been a lucrative business for hospitals, with a heart ...

RFK Jr. announced an initiative to reform the U.S. organ transplant system after a federal investigation uncovered what it called disturbing practices at an organ procurement organization. (Scripps Ne ...