Living-donor transplantation is an option for some organs. For people over 18 born with two functioning kidneys, they can donate one and continue to live a healthy life. An altruistic living-donor ...

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 ...

Toledo woman, Leah Williams, is proof of that. She’s been waiting since 2022 for a living kidney donor. “I want people to know how hard it is to go through this,” Williams said.

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 ...

According to the National Kidney Foundation, 123,000 Americans are on that waitlist. More than a 100,000 of those waiting ...

announced the consolidation of two vital initiatives-the David Atkins Fund and the living kidney donor program in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area-that aim to remove financial barriers to living ...

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 ...

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 ...