Hartford Courant

Opinion: Organ donation is of vital importance to the Black community

The need for life-saving organ transplants is high in this nation’s Black communities. When compared to other ethnicities and races, Blacks are disproportionately affected by the health burdens and ...
Hartford Courant

Opinion: Organ donation is of vital importance to communities of color

Multiethnic communities are disproportionately affected by the health burdens and diseases that lead to organ failure and result in the need for an organ transplant. Currently, 61% of all patients on ...
Heartland

HHS Cracks Down on Removing Organs from Patients Declared Brain Dead

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced a move to tighten oversight of the practice of removing vital organs from neurologically impaired patients. In a July 21 news release, Kennedy announced a ...
The New York Times

Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.

Dr. Jauhar is a cardiologist at Northwell Health in New York, where Dr. Patel and Dr. Smith are the directors of the center for heart failure and transplant. People die in many ways, but in medicine ...