Milestone procedure gives young father with advanced heart failure a new heart and new future with his family.
March is National Kidney Month. Two years ago, WIS introduced you to Brittany Dickerson, a mother, daughter and woman of ...
Thousands of African Americans are closer to receiving a kidney transplant as researchers uncover a race-based diagnostic tool that delayed their care.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracey Pendlum When you spend time with 16-year-old Max Pendlum, it's easy to see the passions in his life. He loves playing the ...
After his father's death at age 100, Roger Steele got an interesting request - will you donate your father's liver to save ...
Mehr explores the recent medical revelation of a man whose lungs were replaced by an artificial lung mechanism, before receiving a lung transplant.
Hardwood Lake – When Wesley Behm was only 11 days old, he became Canada’s youngest heart transplant recipient. Last week he died aged 36, with his family by his side, having lived what his family ...
A kidney donor drove nearly 18 hours through a blizzard to reach Boston in time for a life-saving transplant at Tufts Medical Center.
He sat on the peaks of rolling hills framing the western Kentucky landscape, hoping he might see foxes emerge from the woods. He plunged into coal mines, lifted hay bales, ...
The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.
University of Iowa Health Care transplant surgeon Ramy El-Diwany recently performed the first robotic living donor ...
YOU’RE WATCHING WLKY NEWS. TONIGHT MARKS A MILESTONE FOR A LOCAL MAN AND THE WOMAN WHO SAVED HIS LIFE. ONE YEAR AFTER A LIFE CHANGING KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. THEY TELL OUR JOYCE OGIRRI THEY’RE HOPING TO ...