When Carthesa Hutson’s son, Chris, finally got around to getting his driver’s license he was almost 19. She remembers being ...

Patterson is a registered nurse and executive director of a consulting firm that supports OPTN contracts.

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

Compare Dialysis Centers examined CDC data and other sources to explore kidney disease risk factors and why the condition has ...

Every week, Imran Ali* travels over 30 kilometres to a dialysis centre, a routine that has kept him alive for nearly three ...

This dynamic has historically impacted policy development timelines -- for example, implementation of the Kidney Allocation System, a procedural update for organ allocation, took nearly 12 years ...

For kidney transport ... therapy that continuously pumps a specialized solution through the organ. The KidneyVault System is the first hypothermic machine perfusion device specifically designed ...

“Shannon came into the lab and said, ‘Is it possible to translate this to human organs?’” Mr. Taggart said. Image Once free of ice, the kidney was transferred to a perfusion ...

Researchers from the University of Kentucky have taken a closer look at the relationship between obesity and kidney disease ...