Charleston-based artists Eric Carnahan, Gino Castillo and Fontaine Weyman share their stories of battling illnesses and ...

Other signs of kidney damage Kidney damage often progresses silently in its early stages, with many people not experiencing noticeable symptoms until the kidneys are significantly impaired.

An Art Institute of Virginia Beach student was earning a degree when he had to fight a deadly disease. He now faces the closure of his school.

A pig kidney that had been removed from its host and frozen 10 days earlier, was thawed and prepared for a transplant experiment at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.

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.

Organ transplants End Kidney Deaths Act Reintroduced in Congress While not as good as full legalization of organ markets, the act could save lives by giving kidney donors a $50,000 tax credit.

Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.

There’s a sculpture of a kidney in artist Micheal Yankowski’ s “Dreams and Fabrications” exhibit at River Oaks Square Arts Center in Alexandria.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

Artwork created by patients undergoing kidney dialysis has gone on display at the hospital where they receive their treatment.