A brother and sister from Southwest Minnesota will go into separate operating rooms Monday morning. Tracy Schultz of Luverne will give up one of her kidneys to give the ...
Most people are born with two kidneys and can live healthy, full lives with just one, making it possible to donate a kidney ...
An eight-year-old boy is in a race against time to find a kidney donor, according to his grandad. Issac Bruce-Whitely, from Debenham, Suffolk, was diagnosed with stage three chronic kidney disease ...
On the day he received a kidney transplant, Esbon Mwangi woke up in the middle of the surgery.“I could hear them exclaiming that I was awake,” he recalls. “But I couldn’t move. I couldn’t ...
Lyndsey Hoare, a Macmillan personalised cancer care lead at University Hospitals Tees, is urging others to consider becoming living organ donors as she celebrates 10 years since her life-saving kidney ...
Jerri Lynn Bender's miraculous survival after near-death complications post-liver transplant fuels her hope for a kidney donor.
Just a few years ago, Ronnie’s future was far from certain. Doctors told his mother, Mary Rusek, that her son might not live long after he was born. Ronnie was born with severe kidney problems and ...
UAB surgeons have completed Alabama’s first living-donor liver transplant, expanding lifesaving options for patients facing ...
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 l ...
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.