Cupertino, CA and Richmond, VA — Apple and Donate Life America announced today that, for the first time ever, iPhone users will be able to sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor right from the Health app with the release of iOS ...
Tags: Apple and Donate Life America, Health app, organ donor registration
Free-standing organ recovery centers could markedly improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with deceased organ donation, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation. The study's findings have ...
Tags: Organ Recovery, organ donation, Reduce Costs
Retrieving organs from brain-dead donors is logistically challenging and time consuming in hospitals. Multiple surgical teams often fly to a donor's hospital but frequently face delays in retrieving organs due to crowded operating-room ...
Tags: Moving Organ Donors, stand-alone facility, lowers costs
Ann Marie Reynolds, a 32-year-old who has been in and out of hospitals fighting chronic kidney disease since she was a teenager, had a less than 1 percent chance of receiving a kidney without the University of Alabama at Birmingham's ...
Tags: chronic kidney disease, incompatible kidney exchange, kidney exchange
A first-ever regulation on organ donation coordinator management will be issued this week by the National Organ Donation Management Center to make it easier for the public to donate organs. The 200-plus coordinators at the center will ...
Tags: Organ Donations, Regulation