Can you fill your cup with ice at a self-serve drink dispenser? Lisa Lane has to drink her beverage without the commercial ice. Can you take ibuprofen when ...

"Not only did I help my husband, but I helped a whole other family." Kidney exchange program helps several families get a fresh start on life.

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

BY SYLVESTER OJENAGBON Chronic kidney disease is a significant public health concern in Nigeria. Studies show its ...

Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.

IN the private patient unit of the Royal Free Hospital, London, Sonia Ekweremadu, the 25-year-old daughter of the then deputy ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

He said he would donate a kidney even if he and his brother are not compatible to make sure that he gets a transplant from someone sooner rather than later. A spokesperson for The University of ...

located just west of Indianapolis. Gonzalez had been detained by ICE after he accompanied his brother, Jose Alfredo Gonzalez, to a kidney dialysis appointment. Gonzalez had served as his brother ...

Dr MKO AbimbolaEnd-stage kidney dis­ease is the last stage (5th stage) of chronic kid­ney disease (CKD). ESRD is also called kidney fail­ure, which develops when the treatment of CKD is either delayed ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois ... give a part of his body.” Last week, González spoke ...