Rafael S. Garcia-Cortes is a transplant cardiologist. 

How xenotransplantation could finally solve organ shortages

Conditions
April 21, 2026

13 Americans will die today waiting for an organ transplant. That is a sobering line. Despite remarkable advances in transplantation medicine, the United States still cannot supply enough organs to meet demand. In 2024 alone, more than 3,400 Americans remained on the heart transplant waitlist while thousands more waited for kidneys, livers, and lungs. Yet a potential solution already exists, one that may soon move from research labs to operating …

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How xenotransplantation could finally solve organ shortages

God bless us all and help us to destroy you, COVID-19

Conditions
March 21, 2020

I, like many of my physician colleagues, nurses, and healthcare workers, have spent my entire adult life sacrificing everything to help others, trying to serve the sickest of the sick. However, for every patient I have saved, you have seemingly multiplied by thousands your vast net of suffering. It takes me just seconds to visualize my weakest, immunosuppressed, heart transplant patients, who have already given everything to survive, to realize …

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God bless us all and help us to destroy you, COVID-19