India is set to promote kidney swap transplants nationwide, aiming to increase transplant numbers by up to 15%. Following a ...

Kenya’s first kidney transplant was performed in 1978. In 1984, the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi’s largest public ...

Three couples are celebrating a very special bond after going through a life-saving six-person kidney exchange.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Explore medication options for kidney disease and potential side effects. Learn the best treatment options to slow ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

A 22-year-old Miami University graduate is urgently seeking a living kidney donor to avoid the grueling process of dialysis.

It's done. You’ve had it.” My partner is grinning widely. I open my eyes but have no clue where I am. He tells me I had a ...

The 226 kidney-transplant recipients were bled before transplantation, and the serums tested against lymphocytes of 10 to 40 randomly selected persons. 6 On the basis of these reactions, serums ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...

Similar to people with kidney disease, transplant recipients should only consider acetaminophen to manage post-operative pain symptoms. Again, best practices include using the lowest dose possible ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...