Your circulatory system works all day, every day, to pump oxygen throughout your body. There are cardiovascular conditions that can impact this system. Your circulatory system, also known as your ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 ...

More Organs Are Being Donated After the Heart Stops, Not Brain Death. Policies Are Changing Too WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now ...

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 ...

Contemporary donation after circulatory death donors are more medically complex than those from prior eras. Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors now account for approximately half of all ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. The heart is the central organ of the human circulatory system. Both congenital and acquired structural ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ donation system, after a federal investigation found that one ...

An HHS agency has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to improve national monitoring and to reopen an investigation into a Louisville, Ky.-based organ procurement organization.