/tags/organ-transplants organ transplants en-US Copyright Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:10:21 GMT /health-and-medicine/2023-09-11/oregon-patients-lawmakers-see-horrors-in-us-organ-donation-system Organ donation in the U.S. is broken — but there's a possibility that breaking the monopoly that runs it might change things. Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:10:21 GMT /health-and-medicine/2023-09-11/oregon-patients-lawmakers-see-horrors-in-us-organ-donation-system Lillian Karabaic /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-02/nonprofit-works-to-crank-up-organ-donations Roughly 35,000 people get organ transplants every year in the United States. Which sounds like a big number, until you look at the one next to it: 115,000… Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:40:45 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-02/nonprofit-works-to-crank-up-organ-donations Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich