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 ...

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 ...

An Irish woman who completed an eight-day, 180km journey to mark the first anniversary of her life-changing kidney transplant has told how her ... bloods done before being sent for a X Ray and an ...

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 ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

Kaul recalled a case from more than 10 years ago where the recipient of a kidney developed rabies almost a year-and-a-half after the transplant, much to the surprise of everyone. The recipient was ...

Pauliesha ‘Esha’ McKenzie in hospital, facing her toughest battle yet as she awaits a kidney transplant after her health took a critical turn. Picture: Pauliesha McKenzie. “Pauliesha was ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE — The day Kathleen Beightol found out her husband had a donor match for a kidney transplant, she was overwhelmed with emotion. “I’d been crying all week,” she told the Wyoming ...

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 ...

a patient who received a kidney transplant died from rabies. The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing ...