NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Vanderbilt University made Tennessee history after they became the first hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant with organ preservation technology.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Every 8 minutes someone in the United States is added to the organ transplant waiting list. The majority are in need of a kidney. That was the case for Otway Mayfield ...

Omar is at home now and stable, but his fight continues. Omar needs a kidney transplant. Piscataway seventh-grader Omar Danso, with his mother Jasmin Eversley-Danso and their dog, Peanut.

The treatment, called a cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation -- or CALEC -- can help restore surface corneal epithelial cells, which can be destroyed after chemical burns ...

13-year-old Omar Danso is in need of a kidney transplant after being diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Omar’s mother is undergoing testing to be a living donor, while other potential ...

As the demand for kidney transplants grows, with more than 6,500 patients on the waiting list, the risk of transplant rejection remains a critical concern for recipients. Rejection occurs when the ...

And that’s when the reality hit: her youngest child — her baby, in a family with no history of kidney disease — needed a transplant. “Especially being a 5-year-old, that was, like ...

Now Palumbo is no more than six months away from debilitating hours of dialysis every week unless he gets a kidney transplant. The news that came 18 months ago about his failing kidneys ...

Except this time, instead of preparing a game plan for an opponent, he will make the trip to Ascension St. Vincent Hospital to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. There are nerves ...

Now, his family is searching for a living kidney donor as the young student undergoes nightly dialysis treatments and awaits a transplant. What started in December as suspected food sensitivity ...

Miracle baby Amy Isabel Davidson is a picture of perfection after making history as the first child in the UK to be born from a womb transplant. Scientists today hailed the moment of joy after 25 ...

Leslie Fraser, who received a kidney transplant, says he has plans to pay it forward. "When I was on dialysis, I lost count of how many people I saw pass away. I started to think, ‘Well ...