Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people revoking organ donor registrations, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

Organ systems work together to keep the body in good health. For example, the circulatory and digestive systems work jointly to deliver nutrients throughout the body. Except for the reproductive ...

However, meat also includes offal—the organs of butchered animals. Examples of organ meats include the heart, kidneys, and liver. Organ meats are popular in regions of the world such as ...

A Kentucky man who was pronounced brain dead and prepared for organ donation woke up before he was set to undergo the procedure, and the incident has sparked an investigation and led several ...

The “brain dead” Kentucky organ donor who woke up on the operating table endured tragedy and mental health issues that eventually spiraled with his drug overdose, according to a new report.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The organ donor entry on the back of a driver license is photographed in New York on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 ...

Tatsuo Kawai, director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplantation Tolerance at Massachusetts General Hospital. He spoke at a panel discussion on recent advancements in organ ...

A case of a Kentucky man waking up as his organs were about to be harvested for donation has called into question the protocols used by US hospitals and organ donation networks to qualify death.

Three years ago, Anthony Hoover woke up in a Kentucky hospital to find people shaving his chest, bathing his body in surgical solution and talking about harvesting his organs. Hoover, known as TJ ...

The subsidiary organs of the General Assembly are divided into categories: Boards, Commissions, Committees, Councils and Panels, and Working Groups and others. After discussing the items on the ...

“That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right?" said organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin. "Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open" Getty Anthony Thomas ...

Kahiau Kawai, 17, had gotten separated from his high school paddling team on Wednesday after capsizing approximately half a mile south of Honolulu’s Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort. He was on a 20 ...