Rather than simply wait for a donor or himself to die, he worked with the National Kidney Registry (NKR) to actively search for a living donor. The organization gave him a website to tell his story ...

Background: A limiting factor in expanding the kidney donor pool is donor kidneys with renal tumors or cysts. Partial nephrectomy (PN) to remove these lesions prior to transplantation may help ...

NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. — A North Tonawanda woman is waiting for a kidney donor. 25-year-old Brittany Empson has type 1 diabetes and type O blood. Brittany shared her story on WNY Kidney ...

Nearly one in three (27 per cent) kidney transplants are from a living donor, benefiting about 900 patients in the UK each year. In 2023-24, 185 of those transplants were performed through the ...

"If you know, you know,"—a phrase commonly used to refer to something that is understood or known by a select group of people ...

and the NHS Blood and Transplant’s associate medical director for living donations Lisa Burnapp said a kidney from a living donor like Mr Collins offered the best chance of successful transplant for ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Thirteen people die every day in the United States due to a lack of kidney donors and transplants. That’s why Mark Scotch and his wife, Lynn, have dedicated the last five years ...

Living kidney donation is when a healthy person donates one of their two kidneys while they are alive. Getting a kidney from a living donor has lots of benefits for the person who needs a ...