A woman who received a kidney transplant from her brother 30 years ago celebrated the occasion recently in Westport ...
So the holiday celebrants, which included Deavens’ wife and three children, went outside, armed with plastic bags full of toothbrushes, toothpaste, socks and gift cards ... being moved onto or up the ...
The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...
Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...
As a Montana organ recovery coordinator, Megan Truman spends a lot of time helping grieving families. Organ donation is a ...
Nate Robinson had a successful kidney transplant Friday in Seattle. The former NBA guard, who played with the Celtics in 2009-10 and 2010-11, thanked donor Shane Cleveland on social media.
It’s been nearly a year since the National Foundation for Transplants closed. The organization helped patients come up with the necessary funds needed to get on a transplant list. Almost a ...
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation in living donors is associated with low rates of intraoperative and high-grade postoperative complications and, after a median of about 2 years of follow-up ...
Cathy Weadley and Denise Vasquez met at a Cubs spring training event in 2022, where Weadley was inspired to donate her kidney to Vasquez, who was in need of a transplant.
Because Looney had donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, she was at the top of the transplant list when she needed one herself about eight years ago. She waited and hoped for a human donor ...
Nate Robinson has a new kidney. The ex-NBA guard received the new organ during an hourslong transplant surgery that began Friday morning at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
James Collins donated a kidney to help save his wife. But his kidney didn’t go to her – instead, the pair were involved in a three-way organ swap involving six patients, three hospitals and ...