NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Vanderbilt University made Tennessee history after they became the first hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant with organ preservation technology.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Every 8 minutes someone in the United States is added to the organ transplant waiting list. The majority are in need of a kidney. That was the case for Otway Mayfield ...

And that’s when the reality hit: her youngest child — her baby, in a family with no history of kidney disease — needed a transplant. “Especially being a 5-year-old, that was, like ...

Now Palumbo is no more than six months away from debilitating hours of dialysis every week unless he gets a kidney transplant. The news that came 18 months ago about his failing kidneys ...

Now, his family is searching for a living kidney donor as the young student undergoes nightly dialysis treatments and awaits a transplant. What started in December as suspected food sensitivity ...

Leslie Fraser, who received a kidney transplant, says he has plans to pay it forward. "When I was on dialysis, I lost count of how many people I saw pass away. I started to think, ‘Well ...

Doctors, in fact, have advised him to go public. "I need a kidney transplant," he told WBIR flatly. "That's where I am." Despite his gift for gab and high profile in the Knoxville community, the host ...

A well-known broadcaster in Knoxville is putting out a call to his radio listeners, friends and strangers. Colorado Area Evacuated, School Closed As Emergency Alert Issued Val Kilmer’s final ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A man trying to give his brother a life-saving kidney transplant is set to be released after spending the last month in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The 226 kidney-transplant recipients were bled before transplantation, and the serums tested against lymphocytes of 10 to 40 randomly selected persons. 6 On the basis of these reactions, serums ...

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 ...