The American Hospital Association is saying that the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model could thwart the Biden administration's goal of expanding access by causing undue disruption and ...

Chengpeng Chen receives funding from the NIH. Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors ...

Lung diseases like emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are a leading cause of death worldwide. With the advent of COVID-19, these diseases have only become more prevalent. Despite the ...

The hospital industry is warning that a proposed mandatory model for kidney transplants could introduce “unnecessary disruption and uncertainty to the transplant ecosystem” and ultimately undercut the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a new mandatory model geared at improving access for kidney transplant patients, with the goal of helping hospitals increase the quality of ...

The mandatory model will give performance-based payments and penalties to participating transplant centers. The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model (IOTA), the 6-year mandatory model to increase ...

What is an Organ-on-a-Chip? An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device that simulates the key functions and physiological responses of a specific human organ or organ system on a miniaturized scale.

In a new PNAS study co-authored by Boston University biomedical engineer Dr. Chris Chen, researchers say they're getting closer to understanding the mysteries of lymphedema - a condition characterized ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with support from Medtronic, have developed a groundbreaking process for multi-material 3D printing of lifelike models of the heart's aortic valve and the ...