Doctor says this common painkiller habit is ruining kidney health across India. Here are 9 kidney myths to stop believing as ...

Pacheco of Cicero has end-stage kidney failure, and needs a transplant. Friday marked an emotional reunion between the two brothers, who appeared together at a press conference with the ...

Crossmatch tests of the prospective kidney-transplant donor's lymphocytes with ... Since cytotoxins have not been demonstrated in normal males, the figure of 15.0 per cent among male uremic ...

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 ...

they are also asking immigration officers to consider releasing him on humanitarian parole so he could stay for up to a year in the United States to complete the kidney transplant. “Relief in ...

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 ...

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney ...

Surgeons work on a kidney during a transplant surgical procedure in Washington on Jun 28, 2016. (File photo: AP/Molly Riley) To date, only 986 deceased donors have saved lives by donating their ...

Alethea received her first kidney transplant at the age of 19, but lost it. Five years later, her aunt gave her a second chance. That organ failed 10 years after. Now, Alethea is waiting for a ...

A follow-up ultrasound ... Renography revealed normal shape, size, placement, activity, and drainage of both kidneys, with a functional distribution of 52% to the right kidney and 48% to the ...

A man who was given a life-saving kidney by his wife has told of how he will "never be able to repay her" for donating the organ.

This means a healthy kidney is removed from a living donor and placed into a patient whose kidneys are not working properly. Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon Dr Carrie Jadlowiec says a living-donor ...