According to the American Kidney Fund, kidney disease is growing at an alarming rate. It currently affects more than one in ...

The National Kidney Foundation says about 90,000 people in the U.S. need a kidney, and 12 people die every day while waiting for one.

When kidney donation began in 1960 the first case involved identical ... except for a few twinges from my scar. “If a chronic disease can be treated with a transplant, I feel we should do what we can ...

Hattie Stiff, 28, first received a kidney transplant when she was two and a half, but had to have another 22 years later ...

Hattie Stiff underwent her first kidney transplant when she was just two and a half years old - but she needed another ...

He needed a kidney transplant.Waiting lists are long and finding a match outside your biological family is a long shot.Jeremy’s doctor dared to even guess the odds. "I said, ‘I don't know ...

less than a third of those waiting for a kidney transplant can expect to get one this year. This comes as rates of chronic kidney disease, which can lead to kidney failure, continue to climb ...

Dr. Aaron Winnick, the transplant surgeon who cared ... with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, or scar tissue in the filtering part of the kidney. He was told it was “one of the worst ...