A person may serve as an organ donor only after being declared dead. (Until then, transplant surgeons are not allowed even to ...

Becoming an organ donor can change so many lives. We spoke to two women about how organ donation has touched their lives ...

LOPA, Louisiana's organ procurement agency, is committed to patient safety and provides support to donor families, while also ...

According to the HRSA, one organ donor can save up to eight lives, and one tissue donor can help more than 75 people.

The question, then, is not merely whether Nigerians would love to donate organs after death, but whether the systems and beliefs in place make that choice even possible.

Cindy Zbin, 62, and her husband, Dave Zbin, 65, at their San Jose home on May 13, 2025. Cindy wanted to donate part of her liver to her husband, but was not eligible. Another donor came forward ...

In Austria, France, Hungary, Poland and Portugal, more than 99 percent of people consent to donate. In the United States, the consent rate is 28 percent.

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The more prominent issue, he said, is the donation of vital organs, which by definition an individual cannot live without. “The Church is okay with vital organ donation,” Zalot said.

But the donor had died a day earlier, and the liver lay inside a boxy plastic device. The organ owed its vitality to this machine, which was preserving it for transplantation into a needy patient.