In a move to streamline regulatory oversight of medical devices, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has ...

The updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine used to assess the degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, ...

Washington — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday new action to reform the nation's organ transplant system, as well as a move to decertify an organ ...

The Trump administration announced on Thursday what officials called a "historic" crackdown on the nation’s troubled organ procurement system, pledging stronger oversight, accountability and patient ...

Federal health officials are taking steps to cut ties with a major organ procurement organization as part of a larger initiative to overhaul the nation’s organ transplant system. Department of Health ...

EXCLUSIVE – House Republicans and Democrats are pressing the Department of Health and Human Services to increase transparency on possible “systemic problems” and “threats to patient safety” in the ...

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston will celebrate 150 years of its historic pipe organ on Sunday during the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The cathedral in the South End is the seat ...

About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

Thousands of Americans have removed themselves from organ donor registries following "irresponsible reporting" led by the New York Times, officials said. The Association of Organ Procurement ...

Aug 4 (Reuters) - A group of non-profits that procure organs for transplant is suing to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from using a new method to evaluate their work, saying it ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thomas Engels is the administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Organ donation can be a profound last gift of ...

A recent federal probe and New York Times investigation found surgeons in some U.S. states faced pressure to remove organs from patients for transplantation, even as those patients cried and showed ...