Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

More than half a century after the world’s first heart transplant, scientists are finding fascinating ways to improve the ...

A daughter dedicated to community health care and her active father share their experience with living kidney donation, hoping to dispel myths in the community and encouraging more to share the gift ...

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

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

While there are some ESRD patients who are too old for surgery or too sick to be helped, the majority of ESRD patients can easily extend their lifespan with a donated kidney. Our best estimates show ...

Amanda Gruendell was desperate for a baby and had tried everything from surrogacy to adoption. But nothing worked out until ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday -- a disappointment in the ...

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 ...

A resident of Galloway in Atlantic County, Klimecki had been coping with kidney failure for four years. Although he didn’t know Mark, he knew Mark’s cousin Darren Menditto — an emergency-room doctor ...

A Venezuelan man who was detained by immigration officials after he traveled to the U.S. to donate a kidney to his brother ... ahead of the organ transplant surgery, according to the Chicago ...