Lenny Bernstein

Washington, D.C.

Reporter covering health and medicine

Education: University of Michigan, BA in American culture, 1979

Lenny Bernstein covers health and medicine. He started as an editor on The Washington Post’s National desk in 2000 and has worked in Metro and Sports.
Latest from Lenny Bernstein

Transplant group extends deadline that threatened flow of crucial organs

Supply of lifesaving organs to dozens of transplant centers would have been disrupted.

July 4, 2023

Dispute threatens to disrupt flow of organs to transplant hospitals

The United Network for Organ Sharing is threatening to revoke an organ-screening firm's access to a computer network that sends organs throughout the country.

July 3, 2023

Fauci, former face of U.S. covid response, to join Georgetown faculty

Anthony S. Fauci, who retired from the National Institutes of Health in December, will teach public policy and medicine at Georgetown.

June 26, 2023

Bogus nurses, fake diplomas: Officials search for unqualified health workers

The scheme was concentrated in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, authorities say.

May 18, 2023

Black man awaiting kidney transplant alleges racial bias

Los Angeles barber says in a lawsuit that African Americans rank lower on organ wait lists because of a flawed algorithm.

April 10, 2023

Troubled U.S. organ transplant system targeted for overhaul

Federal health official announces plans to break up the monopoly power of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which has run the system for nearly four decades.

March 22, 2023

Lawmakers probe whether organ procurers are ‘gaming the system’

Finance panel members question the dramatic increase in collection of pancreases for which there is no apparent need; organ groups say they are being responsive to requests.

March 21, 2023

One of largest fertility clinic mishaps in U.S. settled out of court

Chart Inc., the manufacturer of a tank that failed with 4,000 embryos and eggs inside, has settled with an undisclosed number of people who lost the tissue.

March 15, 2023

Mitch McConnell suffers concussion in fall, will remain hospitalized

The 81-year-old Senate Republican leader was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he tripped, his spokesman said.

March 9, 2023

Mexico kidnappings put a spotlight on medical tourism

The attack in Matamoros has not appeared to deter American patients seeking medical procedures in Mexico.

March 9, 2023