Not enough livers to go around, so who gets them?

File photo courtesy of University of Kansas Medical Center. Both sides had their say Tuesday at a Chicago hearing on a change that would take donated livers from the Midwest for use on the east and west coasts. KU Hospital, among more than 40 ...

Liver politics: forces align on donor changes

Lawmakers from Missouri, Kansas and nine other states joined in opposing an effort to send donor livers from the Midwest and south to the east and west coasts. Forty lawmakers signed a letter dated Friday that stakes out their position for a ...

KU Hospital presses to keep Midwestern livers

Kevin Roberts, a two-time liver transplant recipient, opposes the plan to change the way livers are allocated. Local liver recipients join KU Hospital in a battle to keep donated Midwestern livers from going to the east and west coasts. Two ...

KU hospital fights back in east,west coast liver fight

Photo courtesy of University of Kansas Medical Center. By Joe Lambe A battle over who gets livers for transplant is underway, and coastal states want Midwestern livers. The University of Kansas Hospital announced this week that it is calling ...