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

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

Hattie Stiff underwent her first kidney transplant when she was just two and a half years old - but she needed another transplant at 22, and it was cancelled four times ...

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 ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies.

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 ...

A man who donated a kidney to his brother is urging others to consider being a living donor after it saved his sibling from ...